Slight drift in the thread over the previous posts but on the core issue of being able to operate appropriately equipped permit aircraft in IMC (including instrument approaches in IMC) and at night, with an appropriately qualified pilot of course, a change in the rules seems long long overdue.
I own/operate a single engine 4 seat CoA aircraft and am tired of the lack of availability of new designs, high operating costs and general rubbish that comes along with owning and maintaining such an aircraft.
The only thing stopping me from switching to a permit aircraft is the current inability to (legally) fly in IMC. They might not notice if a permit aircraft were to pop through the occasional layer enroute but someone might say something if an RV10 emerges from a 300 foot ceiling on an ILS at a towered airport or needs to file an IFR flight plan to climb through a thin cloud layer at Le Touquet.
Things seem to operate very smoothly in this regard in the USA. Why not in Europe? Can anything be done? Is anything being done?
Does anyone know if a US homebuilt on the N-register can be operated IFR in Europe?