I know its early days but still surprised at the lack of response .....This is THE BIGGEST STEP IN HELICOPTER SAFETY definitely in my lifetime !!!
I am sure that some of you who sweated and paid a fortune for an IR may be cursing but its potentially a great move forward . The IMC was a wonderful thing for the fixed wing community and they would now be utterly lost without it . Give it a few years and we will be the same . From this i guarantee to you that 90 % of singles will be able to do part of their route in cloud rather than grovelling around at 200ft ....that has got to be good .
( So long as they have ModeC Xponder on and dont take the piss trying to do ILS for a breakaway etc ). Now also it will be worth fitting new generation kit into singles such as SAS , synthetic vision etc etc and these will all plummet in price due to the new volume .
As a fairly high hr ppl flying regularly why would you NOT want an EIR ????
I just find it amazing that for once it appears that a PILOT has had some influence in the dealings of the men in white coats
