Lots about what you can legally do with an IMC vs IR, but what in reality does an IR include training wise that an IMC doesn't, apart obviously for airways related work?
It seems to me reading the various threads of the "IMC's are crap, oh no they are not, oh yes they are" variety that the training for, and examination of, IMC ratings depends very much on where it was done. All this talk of 15 basic hours is a bit strange to me. When I did mine it took longer (not because I was crap, but because the school said from the outset it would!). The examination tolerances were +/- 50 ft, 5knots and 5degrees. It also include full proceedural let downs, both ILS and NDB as well as a "mock" SIDS and STARS. The only thing I can think of that it did not include that I have subsequently had to discover is the DME Arc. Perhaps I just went to the wrong flight school?
