Nick,
I apologise for missing your post on page 2, my fingers must be a bit quick on the mouse wheel!
Thud & Blunder,
OK, I missed Nicks post, but he didn't mention anything about IF. If you read my post on page 4, I said that Devon & Cornwall have it about right, NVG for their area, with an IR to back it up. I'm not against NVG per se, (this discussion has become a sort of one or the other arguement), after chatting to some of my military friends Iam more convinced than ever that NVG should not be used as a primary means of weather avoidance. Great for flying in very dark areas.
I still find it difficult to reconcile while the rest of the aviation world, inc. a large part of the rotary world, feel that flying IF is a normal part of aviation practice, (I will qualify that statement by saying in a stabilised helicopter IF equipped), there is still a hard core of pilots who feel very different, and make wild assumptions about IF not based on fact.