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Old 30th December 2008 | 17:03
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Pace
 
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Instrument and IMC flying is about spatial awareness, multi tasking and a whole host of qualities which you either have, work hard at getting or do not have the type of brain that will ever do it well.

It is easy to do with minimal training but throw in a number of failures, missed approaches, diversions, icing, turbulence etc and IFR flying will tax the most professional pilots who are not only current but regulary put through their paces in a simulator to breaking point.

How some here can promote 15 hrs training on an IMCR course and then state that they are IFR ready bemuses me

It takes a lot more than that to be safe in an IFR/IMC invironment.
Used with caution and self limitation as a back up for the VFR pilot the IMCR is a useful safety tool but thats all. Its not an IR which some here seem to think it is.

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