Thank fully the current system seems to keep people like you with your attitude out the airspace I am flying in, long may it continue
Oooooow.
Actually I am happily flying in all the same airspace as you although with oxygen only perhaps not as high!
Actually I think you will find even the humble PPL will be operating in the same class D airspace as you albeit not in IMC.
As Beagle rightly points out there is so much utter nonsense spouted it is not surprising we are where we are. The real problem is that in a way you are culpable when pilots kill themselves and that is why I am still passionate about this one - dont forget it. All the time you realistically deny private pilots the training they need you are culpable.
It is not about tolerances, it is not about the FAA rating is better or worse, it is about whether the EVIDENCE is that the rating is safe - that is all that matters. There is no evidence the FAA IR with it multiple guess exams and practical approach to training is ANY less safe - in fact there is evidence it is SAFER. There is so much evidence that private pilots with an IR are safer pilots that if you are not aware of the evidence and have any interest at all in this subject take a little time to do some research.
Thinking about it none of this really matters and I dont know why I still feel so passionate about it because I have heard the same arguments for as long as I can remember and doubtless it is part of the reason we are set on the course we are. Personally I dont care.
It is worth thinking about though the next time a private pilot kills themselves for the most common reason pilots kill themselves whether you have helped perpetuate some of these myths and just how proud you feel of supporting a system that has resulted in less than 5% of European pilots having an instrument rating and but thank God for our IMC rating a record in the UK which would be a as poor as Frances were in not for the IMC rating.
Personally I think you have nothing to be proud of.