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You have laboured the "Australian experience" with which you are clearly familiar. I assume you have flown in Australia and are aware how their instrument training works?
Well when this came up before I made it my business to see how the Australian model works.
I wonder whether your experience is the same as mine?
I would be interested to know your thoughts on what GA pilots do in Australia if they want an instrument rating and how many hold a command instrument rating.
It worries me when we refer to other models. It is all well and good if we really understand those models and can point to some sound material on how those models work but I dont see our being pointed in the direction of any substantive studies - infact I dont even see our being pointed in the direction of any studies at all.
Would you like to do so?
You refer to AOPA UK's IMC survey. That would be the one that has been running for an eternity. That would also be the one that was devised largely by the pilots on Flyer. It was a good idea, but sadly has been totally discredited. Any statistician worth his salt will drive a cart and horses through the way the questions were formulated, the promulgation of the survey, the controls to prevent duplicate replies, the effect of "leaking" data and, if we ever see the results, their interpretation. To do these things properly costs money and sadly that is something AOPA UK does not have - or at least they are not prepared to invest it in this particular direction. Sadly I know of more than a few wags who have completed the survey - shall we say with their tongue very much in cheek.