Re: Treatment of IFR flight plans (UK, outside Class A)
2D
Partly intellectual challenge, and partly because I know pilots outside Europe who wish to fly here and ask me questions like this. As you know I am under 2T. I will have the IR done next month.
However, having done some long flights into far Europe, it's obvious that even an IR pilot will choose to fly VFR sometimes. Just file a FP (homebriefing.com), jump in the plane and go. And in the UK, formal IFR is hardly worth the bother, even if one spends the whole flight sitting in IMC. With non-mandatory transponders, TCAS is close to worthless.
All the related cr*p (filling in 5 different forms in Greece, having to pay the bowser man in cash, for example) is just the same, VFR or IFR...