This rating is - whether those in authority like it or not - used to fly IFR, very probably often in solid IMC. Been there loads of times, eaten the T-shirt etc. But the instruction leaves a huge amount of gaps in the pilot's knowledge, eg in the areas of flight planning, IFR RT etc, and the obvious implication is that these are things only to be taught in the hallowed halls of the full IR. Can't have those IMC chappies getting in the way of the real IFR traffic, can we ?
Interesting. I got my IMC rating almost two years ago. I passed my IR test earlier today. I'm not in any better or worse a position to answer Pipertommy's questions today than I was before I started the IR course, so I don't think that comes into it at all. Personally, I would like to see some of this type of thing on the IMC written exam, rather than all the route-plotting stuff which, let's face it, really isn't any different to VFR route-plotting.
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