MaxRed
If you read back through my posts I actually state that flying OCAS in IMC with an IMCR is more demanding and requires a lot more "creative" thinking than flying depature in CAS enroute in CAS and arrival and landing in CAS most under the watchful eye and control by radar.
I have also stated that current PPLs with experience and currency do a lot better of a job than many IR pilots but that is their experience levels gained probably since the IMCR rather than because of it.
Most fly within their limits and currency. I also stated that there is a much larger variation between PPLs than say CPLs.
I am sure there are many PPLs you would not send your kids up with with just them as the pilot?
There are Brilliant PPLs and very poor PPLs (do you agree?)
What stirred this conversation was the fact that the IMCR gave you an enroute instrument rating in EASA land which with the existing IMCR IN THE UK would realistically give the holder of an IMCR almost FULL IR privalages.
The question with that is whether this was envisaged by the regulators or advisable considering that a low time IMCR pilot could theoretically take off from say Bournemouth into a 200 foot cloudbase fly airways to Aberdeen and land with a 200 foot cloudbase all the while relying on his autopilot to hold up!
I felt the subject warranted discussion and lively discussion at that so again I apologise for stirring too much but not for anything I have said above
Pace