Originally Posted by
neilgeddes
Sounds like an excellent idea presuming controlled airspace means A and C, not D
And this is one of the really big problems the Europeans have with the IMCr. Their airspace isn't sealed off like a water tight drum from IMCr holders like the UK CAT airspace is.
You need to be comfortable arguing the IMCr is an appropriate rating for flying into Heathrow and flying through the London TMA - because that is what we are implicitly asking Europeans to agree with - or to fundamentally restructure their pretty standard use of airspace to match the UK's unique approach to airspace!
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I know this issue can be dodged by allowing individual states to allow/not allow the IMCr, or for it to be a UK only rating (i.e. the status quo), but this is diametrically opposed to the decisions already made by EASA and implicitly agreed by the British Government (in that they are in the EASA process)