oh and crab I think you will find Tourist has both military and civvy IR's, I spent many many happy hours flying with him, as for his comments its called flexibilty
I'm afraid that the rules regarding precision approaches and required visual references do not require 'flexibility'. I'm afraid that aviation in bad weather can be fairly unforgiving of 'flexibility', and let me assure you that as an IRI and IRE that attitude would certainly not be rewarded in an IR.