2Donkeys - absolutely no offence taken - a good discussion.
I still am uncertain where the legislation comes from. Are we saying that in France to file IFR requires an instrument rating because thats what the French ANO says and is that true throughout Europe. To me it again begs the question that we all operate in theory under JAR (and I except with certain national exceptions like the UK IMC rating) and yet presumably there are other differences between our ANO and the French. It begs the question as to precisely what JAR unified and what it did not.
Edit added because having thought about the issue presumably it is us that departs from the international norm by permitting pilots to file IFR without an IR subject to the mc whereas in Europe filing IFR is not mc dependant, so IFR becomes impossible in VMC without an IR. Anyone know for sure?
Last edited by Fuji Abound; 9th May 2003 at 03:38.