Fuji, virtually all of that rant is utter nonsense!
As you well know the proposed eir is not the same as the imcr and the irr may not be available throughtout easa.
The proposed En-route IFR Rating is totally different and is not a substitute, I agree. But the IR(R) will have the same privileges as the UK IMC rating and will
not be valid outside UK airspace.
As to my comments regarding martin he rufused to lend aopa uks support to the imcr or to the campaign to save it to which i quote he said it was as much use as a chocolate teapot.
AOPA has always supported the IMC rating very strongly and neither Martin Robinson nor any other AOPA representative has ever wavered from that position.
The 'chocolate teapot' term was
my description of the
original EIR which hadn't been properly defined and was very vague and imprecise.
He then changed aopas stance when he realised the tide had turned, aopas stance was very unpopular and they had little choice but jump on the band wagon
Again, complete nonsense. Although AOPA's position on the retention of the UK IMC rating most certainly did
NOT change, the position on the EIR changed once the NPA 2011-16 proposals made it clear that most of the originally unacceptable vagueness and safety issues had been addressed. If you want to see the full details of both the IAOPA(EU) and AOPA(UK) actual position with regard to the EIR, you will have to wait until the CRD is released.
Personal opinion it maybe but aopa uk has lost its way under martin resulting in an organisation very poorly supported (with less than 10 % of the pilot population being members) and with few friends amoung the other representative organisations.
Nonsense though it is, you are of course entitled to your own opinion. However, you might care to know that AOPA has been working closely with the 'other representative organisations' on a number of issues without any friction or other difficulties. It also has a good standing with the senior levels of the CAA.
Before writing such bile-ridden garbage, it might have been better if you'd done rather more research.