Bose, with apologies to others on here whom I'm sure are not in the least interested in issues of colour vision; I'm bothering to respond to you because you appear to be involved in some way in shaping the future of GA in Europe. Something that for selfish reasons I care passionately about.
Why can I not be trusted to exercise my IR during the day only, winter or not? I have little interest in flying a SEP at night anyway.
You will agree that the problem with this industry is that, at regulatory level at least, it appears to operate a policy of exclusion rather than inclusion. Why not learn form the Americans, and find a way to make things work rather than finding reasons why they cannot?
If you're happy with blindly accepting the status quo, why are you bothering to try to change things more widely on the IR fornt?
I can still go and get an FAA IR, probably without even the night restriction as there are further more practical tests available in the States, and fly N reg in Europe. As someone who's new to the game, none of this makes any sense.