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For the issue of an instrument rating the holder of a PPL or CPL shall have completed at least 50 hours of cross-country flight time as pilot-in-command, according to the relevant FCL requirements, the minimum required cross country flight hours in the relevant aircraft category are…

  • A
    15 hours.
  • B
    10 hours.
  • C
    25 hours.
  • D
    none.

EASA AIRCREW
Regulation (EU) No 245/2014
FCL.610 IR – Prerequisites and crediting

Applicants for an IR shall:
(a) hold:

(1) at least a PPL in the appropriate aircraft category, and:

(i) the privileges to fly at night in accordance with FCL.810, if the IR privileges will be used at night; or (ii) an ATPL in another category of aircraft; or

(2) a CPL, in the appropriate aircraft category;

(b) have completed at least 50 hours of cross-country flight time as PIC in aeroplanes, TMGs, helicopters or airships, of which at least 10 or, in the case of airships, 20 hours shall be in the relevant aircraft category.

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