Helimutt
Good point, from a ppls prospective I have just done 10 hours of instrument training(none was required when i did my ppl h)to obtain my night rating,I couldnt understand why they never had it in the ppl H syllabus before.
As to the fors and against, well if people have absoluptely no idea of instruments and live in fear of flying into cloud and then one day accidentaly do,there are very serious consequences. I feel if everyone was trained to a standard wereby they have a knowledge of how difficult it is to fly on instruments it will do 2 things a) make them think even more about marginal conditions and b)If something does happen to require instrument flight at least they have a fighting chance of staying the right way up rather than none at all!
The really big problem is keeping in practice on instruments, it really is amazing how fastyou can get out of practice/or how much practice it requires. and I think this is the big point that needs to be made.
I think once the average ppl sees how difficult it is to fly on instruments it will serve as a great deterent!
Having said that I enjoyed it so much I would now like to do an IR rating!!
regards
hoverbover
PS
A very wise man once told me, the quickest way to die is fly an unaugmented/stabilized helicopter in cloud.