Exactly right englishal. After I gained my IMCR I spent somewhere in the region of 20 hours gradually building up my skills before I started doing long XC trips, IMC at night, over water, rough terrain etc... I practice holds, SIDs and IAP's at my home base to keep myself current and flew a perfect approach recently in 2000/BKN030. I am quite capable of flying in IMC with a high level of accuracy and find it quite sad that DFC thinks IMCR holders cannot be capable instrument pilots. Maybe some aren't as good as others, but please don't tar us all with the same brush.