Twist grip, I suspect you don,t know what you are talking about, OR your'e baiting (because of your number of previous entries)!
Anyway who cares, lets stir it up and get excited for a change:
Pay differentials for IR pilots average £1000-£2000. Not 10,000-20,000 as is the differential on the N.Sea.
There are IR pilots in our industry. There will be many more in the next few months when a well known service provider completes its programme of IR conversions.
There has never been a demand for IR in the industry because if you can't see what you're doing you're wasting everybodys time!
You can't simply go "inadvertent IMC" because you are IR'd and just pop into the nearest diversion, as you well know!!!
You need to plan to go IFR. When you do that life in a light twin with minimum fuel reserves becomes very difficult to calculate.
All future 135's and 902's are being purchased as SPIFR as standard.[902 when cleared which is not far off].
Force areas don't always supply workable MSA's or close diversion open 24hrs a day with nav aids. None of the a/c are cleared for icing.
Need I go on, or have I bitten off enough bait???
