Flying IMC out of CAS now dangerous?

[Fuji Abound]

Pace, Not wanting to be funny, be surely you must understand that there is an element of risk flying IFR OCAS? Your glider may have been close but it still proves that the big sky theory works and for you to have seen it then it can't have been completely IMC!

Bose – most unlike you, you seem confused. Either the big sky works or there is an element of risk? You have to make your mind up.

Look it is simple really.

We all know the evidence would suggest you can fly in IMC for a whole lifetime without TAS or TS and never have a collision.

However, just like the lottery ad says – one day, it could be youuuu.

Should we expect people to pay to eliminate and almost non existent risk?

That is the conundrum.

Many young men pay life assurance premiums. The risk of them dying young men is very small, but they feel it is worth while insurance.

For me the added cost to my flying of fitting a transponder is small – mode C being fine. With the current generation of compact transponders I am convinced they could be fitted to many gliders if they wished to do so. I accept that FLARM is ideally suited to gliders who realistically could not fit TAS and characteristically fly in close proximity to each other.

However if you share airspace where visual rules no longer work and therefore the only mechanism for avoiding each other is to keep your fingers crossed is it so unreasonable that I should expect you to fit the same technology that the rest of us use in these conditions.

You have an alternative – don’t fly in or near cloud unless you have a transponder because it could be youuuu and the thought of an entirely avoidable mid air horrify me.