Why can't permit aircraft fly at night, IR etc ?
Because they will just plummet out of the sky!!!
It takes tons of data to remove restrictive legislation like this. Both the NPPL relaxation of medical requirements and the recent removal of overflight restrictions were granted on the basis of data showing that the risk to the public wouldn't increase.
I wonder how the information on night flying and IFR is going to be gathered. The US seems the only source of real data but I wonder if this will be accepted in the UK.
ZA