I went to a CAA/EASA presentation Feb 2008 and they reported that they are aware of just one fatality of an IMC Rated pilot while exercising the privileges of the IMC Rating. This is since the introduction of the Rating c. 1969.
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Can you pick up the details of that one accident since the accident which killed my friend was in this aircraft
8 January 1994. Mooney M20J G-BSKJ. Aircraft flew into the Eye of the Needle on n the summit of the Wrekin Hill.
If the CAA one accident since the IMC rating was introduced was not this one then frankly the CAA are talking a load of rubbish because I know better, FACT!!! If not the CAA are as I stated talking rubbish or cooking the data to make a point.
Pace
NB I had 200 hrs in that plane and know the accident details to the letter and it was an IMCR pilot in IMC