Please don't confuse an IMC with being qualified or able to fly PROPERLY on instruments, you are NOT. THAT'S exactly how people KILL themselves!
Stellair ... ... your job security with 'Top Notch Airways' is not under threat from hoards of cheap labour IMCrs so please don't get too carried away with your superior qualifications.
You have spent so long at high altitude that you have forgotten (if you ever knew) what the IMCr is all about. It is not for the occasional 'rabbit out of the bag' to get you home safely. If you fly IMC that infrequently then that is where the risk comes from (whether IR or IMCr).
I fly (with PPL/IMC) routinely in IMC without autopilot - so far around 20 hours this year. So long as the minimums are OK at each end then, as far as I am concerned, I am not gambling with the lives on board. IMHO I can fly "PROPERLY" on instruments and certainly, I suspect, as well as you.
Safe flying
