Fuji
Part of the problem we have is a misunderstanding eg what the IMCR is. You Beagle and many others see it almost as a British instutution, a rare species which faces extinction and must be saved at all costs.
In reality and this is how the Europeans see it it is a very low quality rating designed to get you out of trouble with minimal instrument training and exams.
Do the Europeans who dont have that rating want such poorly trained pilots in cloud risking a collision with commercial traffic? Because that is how they will percieve it.
UNTIL the day we start to realise that the IMCR is only a set of standards to be met in instrument flying which could be greater or less then we will get no where.
The Europeans have their own IR and viewing the IMCR as a set of low standards far below their IR they are not going to accept it Europe Wide.
As it is purely a set of instrument flying standards and exams as is the IR you can only argue to increase those standards or decrease the IR percieved standards to get something universally acceptable.
We are all after the same thing maybe its just our perception of what we are trying to achieve which is different.
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