Originally Posted by bookworm
Well that's hardly surprising since the discussion is about the value of the IMC rating in changing those privileges.
Spot on Bookworm.
To tie this up with another point made earlier on this thread, The VFRules themselves allow, in the specified circumstances,
flight out of sight of the surface,
flight down to a vis of 1500m.
It is the ANO privileges of a UK issued PPL (sched 8, sub sect 1.1) that denies these facilities unless the holder has an IR or IMCR.
Dublinpilot, I originally quoted from the current text of the ANO not Pooley's.
This I have in full, by free download of CAP393.pdf from the CAA website. I got this a little while ago for study of a different subject.
MikeJ