Originally Posted by
Fuji Abound
It is only us Brits that do things properly and recognise that IFR should have nothing to do with the qualifaction that would enable the pilot to fly in IMC but everything to do with making a statement about the rules with which we are complying.
Fuji, this only makes sense because the instrument flight rules in the UK are trivial. UK IFR in VMC and UK good practice VFR are almost exactly the same - so from a pilot perspective you can't see any real difference.
If you look at the US even at its most basic level, VFR and IFR aircraft fly in entirely different 'space', even thousands have people broadly head in flying on reference to instruments with ATC separation and +500s have people flying head out self separating. These two groups of pilots should only ever interact in the climb/descent or near an airport. (Obviously the IFR guys are looking out as well - but you get my point).