Great if IR can be made more accessible to PPLs, but please can I keep my IMC rating? It does all I want.
Those who think they don't want access to CAS A are really just trying to hang onto the IMCR, the sheer ease of airways flying has to be experienced to understand the huge benefit having an accessible IR over the IMCR.
LFAT on a sunny day, straight over the top of everything and into LFAT. Navigation is a breeze and radar service all the way. Contrary to belief the lower airways are not full of jet traffic.
No, bose-x, really I don't want to be able to fly CAS A and airways. I'm prepared to do a bit more work to get an IR, I suppose, in the name of pointless European bureaucracy, but please tell me that
- it will be accessible to anyone on a Class 2 medical
- it won't cost grossly more to train for than the completely adequate IMC
- some account will be taken of my IMC training and experience
Much more use would be an IMC rating for NPPL. Any chance of that? I fly with some that have had to downgrade to an NPPL for minor medical reasons, and have lost IMC capability.