What use is an IR if you not in current practice??......I had a situation a couple of months back with an aircraft that called me inbound to Edinburgh from the south. he called me above cloud and wished to descend towards his destination in the Talla area....he sounded a bit freaked with the conditions and kept asking me for a radar service....I asked him if he was IR qualified and he said yes but had done no IR flying for 11 months....that situation could have turned to mince but managed to get the guy down through cloud with the help of edinburgh radar..........food for thought then, why bother taking an IR rating if you are hardly ever going to practice in those conditions. To me it seems a rating to death!!
