Grrrrrrr I get madder than a really mad thing when people start trotting out commercial ops in the IR context. I got my IR when I was already two years too old to be a commercial pilot.
Europeans please get your head round the fact that many of us with IR just want to fly IFR in our little aeroplanes so we can use them like cars. We don't care about commercial operations and we don't have ops manuals and we ALWAYS plan for convenience.
If my destination and alternate don't work (as has happened to me a couple of times) I get ATC to go find me somewhere I can get into, it's one of the things ATC is for.
