Julian, I never said that...... It was Gertrude in a fit of petulance that insinuated that I had.....
I merely pointed out that to be safe in IMC you have to be current, to be current you have to fly regularly, to fly regularly costs money. Which ever way uu look at it Instrument flight is not cheap.
If the loss of the IMC keeps the ill trained, ill equipped non current flyer out of IMC conditions then so be it.
But we are talking at cross purposes. I think the loss of the IMCR would be a disaster for British aviation. I just get fed up of the endless tirade against getting a proper instrument qualification and the constant need for short cutting the system.
The Eurocrats are driven by the airlines and the airlines representatives on these committees are usually not a million miles away from these forums. So when they sit at committee expressing there concerns about keeping light aviation away from the fare paying punters they have a wealth of information to back up what they say.
What I would like to see is the IMCR overhauled and accepted as a file difference specific to the UK. Trying to flog it to the europeans as a euro wide rating is a flight of fantasy. Getting the IAOPA to support it is flight of fantasy. The IMCR is a British anomaly that Europe does not really understand.
The UK CAA want to see the rating retained and to that end our working group has carried out a review and revised the IMCR and submitted it.
But I get fed up with peoples attitudes, it always seems that they are looking for a shortcut and that does not put GA in a good light.
I may appear blunt and often writing seems to convey that I have a poor attitude, but this is not the case. There are many on these forums who work with me on these matters and understand who passionately I feel about GA and preserving everything we have. I am also pragmatic and inn politics and bureaucracy everything is a case of give and take. This is unfortunately part of being forced to be European. I hate it the much as the next man and much prefer the US way of doing things. However the US is several thousand miles away, Europe is here or 26m way depending on your view.