I had a near miss yesterday, flying IFR from Beccles to Leicester in the snow and god knows what else another aircraft apparantly not flying a Quadrantal rule passed over the top at me by no more than 50ft. Made my bum clench a little a bit!
Forwardn viz at the time was around 250-500m.
The big skies theory is great if everyone flies to the same set of rules, unfortunatly yesterday it proves that they do not!
Unfortunatly all of the LARS units that I flew over were closed as well which mad a RADAR service impossible. I cant believe the want GA to pay for LARS!
Still a near miss is better than a hit!