Coming onto the current training requirements do you have any ideas to get people more aware and more capable?
Nigel, short of giving out our phone numbers and imploring those about to make trips in bad weather to call us and run it past someone who might note the flaws in their cunning plan - no.
In the military you have an authoriser for every sortie who you run your intended plan past and they will consider your currency, fitness for flight and host of other things. That clearly won't work in GA but phoning a friend might help.