En-route instrument rating - how's it supposed to work?
Reading the discussions about the latest twists in the sad story of the IMC rating, I've been trying to work out how the proposed new EIR is supposed to work in practice.
Apparently, it will be valid for the lower levels of airways. Does this include our Class A airways?
If you can't make an approach at the end, what does a typical flight using the EIR look like?
Do you take of VFR and then join airways IFR en-route? What happens at the other end? Do you have to leave controlled airspace, become VFR and sort yourself out? Or do you continue IFR but with a VMC requirement and make a visual approach?
Can anyone give an example or two of flights using the EIR?
Mark