Chilli ... Like robin, your post
I find it a little unnerving that I could be flying the correct quadrantal level under IFR in IMC minding my own business and get hit by some gliding bod spiralling up in the cloud in a completely indiscriminate fashion simply because he feels like it
left me feeling a bit hot!
Surely outside controlled airspace, you have no more right to be in IMC than any other person legally allowed to do so? Why are you flying IFR in IMC? is it simply because
you feel like it ? or is it an aid to your goal (getting from A-B). Perhaps the glider pilot is using it to aid his or her goal (distance record perhaps). If you're not happy get an IR and fly in class A. Apart from crossing under permission there be no gliders there!
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