Would the French still be against an IMC rating (to keep it's old name) even if it were valid in France? Surely this would eliminate supposed problems of people illegally using an IMCr in France. I wonder how may incidents out Irish neighbours get?
Despite what some short sighted people think, the no. 10 petition does one thing really well.....acts as a key indicator to everyone what level of support the IMCr has. I don't really care if Gordon B writes back a standard "of course we will review this..." letter, becuse it lets us know what the PEOPLE think.
Of course if the "people" can't be arsed with the IMCr then that is another matter. I suspect also that no one has really asked the other European pilots if they want an IMCr...My mate is German and did the JAA PPL (UK) so he COULD add and IMCr to it.