Helinutt
I agree entirely that it is possibly wishful thinking to have such a system in place and yes you are right that unstabilised rotary traffic makes up a very small percentage of the overall number of aircraft handled by our friends in ATC.
However to look at another percentage.....I'm pretty certain that the minority group above makes up the majority group in fatal accidents caused by IIMC. How many more times will we see pictures/read read reports of crumpled Robbos that had been on a private flights in sh
te weather before the authorities start jumping up and down?
For what it's worth I actually think that the 'instrument appreciation' ("well done Bloggs, you can now carry out a 180 degree turn with sole reference to instruments") part of the courses leads some (not all!) trainees into a false sense of ability.....rather than have the desired effect of scaring the stuffing out of them so they never go near it!