“With all due respect to Rod an MCR is not a utility GA aircraft, it is a fun Day VFR aircraft”
You are absolutely correct, but I have £50k tied up in her. If I sold her and found one other person with £50k I assume I could get a reasonable IFR machine for £100k. Having spent 1800 hours building an aircraft, and being a reasonably experienced IMCR pilot, I would expect to be able to get an IR if I really needed one.
I can accept that Paris may work, but Span and Italy look non starters. Berlin takes me about 4.5 hours by squseyjet (all in), of which about 2.5 hours are free to work. What would your numbers look like?
Rod1