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I think you should cool down a bit.
Following IR minimas when you only hold an IMC rating?
What does the above mean? Please read the ANO. The IMCR minima are the same as the IR minima, except for 1800m min met vis for the IMCR.
I know there are recommendations to increase the mins to 500/600ft but they rank alongside recommendations to not use a GPS (it is the work of the devil), to not navigate with a rubber duck floating in a bucket, to not fly into hills (but a CFIT without the use of a GPS is permitted), not twiddle with knobs and look out of the window instead, etc.
The problem with criticising the standard of training in one area, or for a particular Rating, is that you then need to take matters to their ultimate logical conclusion and shut down PPL training in the UK, because, frankly, most of it is c**p and very poorly serves the customers who do not discover until it is too late that they can't really fly anywhere useful and even if they could they can't do it in the wreckage which they can rent off their training establishment.
I have only 500hrs but have never been uncertain of pos for a millisecond, anywhere I've been to in Europe. If aeroplanes were invented today, there wouldn't be D&D on 121.50 because nobody would need to call it. The whole system exists because of the WW1 training which pretends that dead reckoning is good airmanship and anything else is just not cricket...