An accident involving an IMC-rated pilot flying into a hill is relevant to the debate about whether IMC-rating training is sufficient for operational IFR.
The answer has to be NO the IMCR is a minimal instrument training package.
It is only when you go into the realms of type ratings and see the level of failures and situations thrown at the pilot in a simulator that you realise how minimalistic the IMCR is.
It is only under such extreme loading on the pilot that you can find out his limits and train him to deal with every scenario in IMC.
The IMCR cannot meet what the PPL may have to face and sadly thats when the poor guy looses the plot.
The IMCR is an excellent safetey backup for the PPL faced with worse than expected weather and is used by PPLs with hard earned experience but little free study time to get around in poor weather. In itself it cannot be regarded as an IR.
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