PSA - If you ever find yourself thinking about disassembling a lever action hammer spring/strut, don’t do it! That’s 10 hrs of my life and at least 1000 variations of FUCK! I’ll never get back.
From some friends I know that have recently gone through and from a few FAIPs I know, you will still go through IPT regardless. I have all the way up to my CFI and if I’m selected I’ll have to go through IPT. I was also told if you have these ratings already, you’d just do the stage checks and not the checkrides.
Funny how they say the intersection has been "targeted" for vandalism, instead of stating that the community had been "targeted" for forced celebration of an idea held by a small mentally unwell minority of the population.