IR before CPL

[Luke SkyToddler]

The IMC rating does cover the 'instrument flying' part of the syllabus. What it doesn't teach you, is the skill of doing that same instrument flying in busy terminal airspace, with airliners breathing down your neck and controllers barking orders at you 19 to the dozen, trying to write your clearance for the go-round out with one hand while simultaneously carrying out emergency drills, while attempting to hand fly a twin with a simulated engine failure down an ILS to minima, all to a level of 1/4 ball half-scale-deflection JAA-mandated accuracy that Chuck Yeager himself would struggle to achieve