Just a quick question to help me understand this thread:
What proportion of microlights have radio?
Is it half of them, a tenth, three quarters?
I've pounded the Cambridge ILS many a time and I wouldn't get too fazed by the presence of microlights if I could hear them talking to Cambridge.
The thought of them in my vicinity with no radio however gives me the willies:
I s'pose in real IMC they wouldn't be about: it's the ILS in VMC under the hood during training/revalidation that's the problem: Which is why in these conditions the carriage of an observer (qualified pilot) in necessary to avoid a nasty coming-together.
Cusco.