When I fly from here to say Spain, I use about 1% of the IR theory, 1% of the instrument skills, etc. 99% of IFR flight is in sunshine, on autopilot... Half an hour before you get there, you dig out the STARs etc... any monkey could do that.
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You must be very selective on your weather because thats nothing like my IFR flying.
The IMCR IS Minimal flying hours and flying to large tolerances my point there is that the IMCR is just a name. Dont loose that fact. You could stiffen the requirements for the IMCR overnight and still call it the IMCR or you could drop the requiremets for the IMCR and still call it the IMCR.
Go for a full IR more easely achievable and call that the IMCR then we can all say the IMCR has been saved like the whale.
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