As some of you may have heard or read elsewhere on this forum, there is a good chance that once EASA harmonisation of european flight crew licensing takes place, the IMC rating (currently a UK only rating) could disappear.
This would be a bad thing for Private Pilots, for the flight training industry and also for safety in general.
I have a little petition on the go . . . .
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/IMC-Rating/
. . . to which I hoped that people might like to add their names.
Perhaps you could also encourage anyone you know who flies or has any kind of interest in aviation to do the same?