Thread Drift
I do not care whether the IMC survives, or not, in it's exact current form.
But I do want a Rating that gives essentially the same privileges, for about
the same amount of training and will be valid for longer than 1 year.
Responses to my original Post started with knocking EASA (understandable,
but not helpful) and seem to have moved on to a discussion on how to make
an IR easier to obtain (discussions which, unlike for the IMC, are not time critical).
If we end up losing the IMC then, at least, I would like to ensure that
all ideas/avenues/approaches had been tried.
We should never assume that "the great and the good" have already
thought of everything. I note that BEagle states he is a director of AOPA,
so any ideas, that might just tip the balance, would be seen if posted here.
So far only Fuji (Post 16) has suggested anything, unfortunately his suggestion
is very much like the idea for an "Instrument Weather Rating" of a couple of
years ago - rejected because it gave full IR privileges on a sub-ICAO IR.
People must have some other ideas, suggestions.................