Perhaps the answer is to make an IR mandatory for a UK PPL??
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Come on - most of us bimble around VFR quite happily and thank our lucky stars when once in a hundred or so hours or so we make a mistake and scrape our way out of it.
Getting an IR would bankrupt me and simply remove the pleasure I get from tootling above the English countryside in generally fair weather, not talking to anyone, not tracking any VOR's and not getting stressed out with overly complex systems and procedures. If the cloud comes down I curse myself and turn back from where I came.
Only on two occasions have I allowed myself to get into a situation where an IMC/IR rating would have extricated myself - but I got out anyway with little drama and only lightly soiled underwear.
Give me gentle zephyrs and fluffy cumulus any day. Perhaps there should be a section for us 'Sunday, fair weather flyers'