Can I ask a quick question rather than answer one please?? (sorry, thought this looks like an apprporiate place to ask this)
What is the difference between the IMC and the IR?? I mean in terms of what you have to do. I know the IMC is a CAA rating so you cannot use it outside UK airspace unless given the go ahead by the foreign authority but what else does an IR pilot do that an IMC pilot doesn't? Is it just that the IR pilot can fly to tighter tolerances or can he/she do other stuff?
Just curious because I'm intending on doing my IMC this winter and wondered what I'm not going to be taught that an IR would teach me. BTW, if there is a big difference between them then for you guys with IRs already I'm not saying they're equal and belittling what you've got, just curious to know the difference.
Thanks for your time.