Quadrantal Rule... why bother?

[Oldpilot55]

I think an even better idea than the QR is to avoid VRPs and VORs like the plague. Every time I overflew a VOR I came too close to something aluminium hurtling the other way.

[Intercepted]

I found the following statistics for US between 1982 and 2003:

0.86% of all GA accidents are MACs
1.99% of all glider accidents are MACs

Do we have any equivalent UK statistics somewhere?

[Ryan5252]

"... Do we have any equivalent UK statistics somewhere?"
Yes we do.

[RatherBeFlying]

Remember that gliders are either in a thermal going up or looking for the next one while going down; so, no quadrantial altitudes.

In Canada, many (not all) of the VFR SEPs tend to be at +500 and the big iron is usually at a 000. In NA, the transition altitude is 18,000' and there is no QFE; so, we do tend to have everybody on the same altimeter setting

So I try to remember to be especially alert for fast moving metal at 000s and 500s while slower moving fibreglass can be coming from anywhere, but is mostly found under good looking cumulus.

The provincial medivac is especially good at announcing itself on the local freqs