Northern Highflyer - from my investigations, doing an IMC pre CPL/IR seems a sensible way to spend some of your hourbuilding hours (Instructors are dirt cheap after all
). But with the weak dollar, it's possible to do an FAA I/R, which obviously includes an automatic IMC, for around the same price. (There was an article about it in 'Flyer' 2(?) issues ago).
Getting back to the thread - I sympathise with Mr Magoo (and look forward to his reply to 6-60), but why do we rarely get pilots who did manage to get jobs at a similar age giving info on these threads about how they did it? I can think of one called Danny who can spend a lot of time writing pompous missives on subjects he finds of interest but rarely writes on subjects like this where his opinion could be helpful. I'm prepared to be proved wrong, mind.