TMMorris
When the IMCR is used in anger by very experienced PPLs it can be far more demanding than flying IFR following a nice SID then a cruise then a nice star or more likely to be pulled off and vectored onto a nice ILS.
The hardcore IMCR pilot often took off into equally low cloudbases, never got on top battling in the cloud and turbulence low level and to top it often had a home made approach often to quite low limits based on GPS with hopefull conventional navaids as a back up.
Of course never me
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