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Old 18th November 2009 | 09:12
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mm_flynn
 
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Fuji,

Are you an active member (as in attend AGMs, working meetings, write/email/call the executives to express views) of any of the aviation groups?

As far as I can tell, AOPA, IAOPA, PPL/IR, EAS have all had extensive discussions at executive and with involved membership and generally agreed a desired outcome.

I know this doesn't fit with your view (and several others on these threads), but a rating like the IMCr is pretty much impossible to get to fly within the airspace structures and regulatory philosophy of the rest of Europe. This shouldn't really be a surprise given the UKs approach to IFR and consequent airspace logic is pretty much unique in the world.

There may be a need to fudge it in order to facilitate retaining the IMCr in the UK - but that is very different than getting a useful new capability in the rest of Europe.

The key issue is making the IR more sensible, and this would over the long run solve several issues in European GA. On the path, their may be a reason for an intermediate step (and many people continue to argue for that). The 'chocolate teapot' is a proposal in that direction (but is defenitely not an IMCr replacement) - I have no idea what the view of European pilots is to the EIR.

The more UK centric organisations arae mounting the challange to retain the IMCr pretty much unchanged. And I hope they succeed. But the European organisations are working on how to move forward over the long run - which I think is probably the more important victory to secure (and I suspect the EIR isn't really an important part of this objective).
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