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so you just have to know that there's a restriction not actually written in your licence.
That's what you have to know when you operate in foreign airspace.
Whereas the UK PPL doesn't include IMC, so you know you can't fly IMC without an additional rating. Well that's a wonderful bureaucratic nicety.
Which PPL does specify instrument conditions flight within its privileges without a specific rating? (Maybe there is one, I don't know)
The IMC and the altiport ratings are both anomalies, as they exist in certain states only.
I am not arguing that the IMCR is a bad rating (in fact I think both it and the altiport rating make a lot of sense), but it seems there is concensus for adopting one and not the other.
That is the realpolitik from where I am sitting.
I have no intention of getting involved in the main debate, but I do wish all IMCR holders the best of luck in retaining your rating.
But if you are to do this, you do need get your logic straight or the bureaucrats will cut you to pieces
