"randall g" wrote in message
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You and Pete are both being unfair.

Hardly. None of us are trivializing the work it takes to get an instrument
rating. Heck, I think any of us who has one would readily acknowledge that
it is *at least* as great a challenge as the initial Private certificate
training.

The point is that Jay goes on about other people not wanting to do the
things he thinks everyone should want to do, and yet ignores the fact that
he himself doesn't want to do the things other people enjoy (even though we
don't necessarily think everyone should want to do them).

The instrument rating just happens to be one example of this. It only comes
up because of his reputation with respect to it...it has nothing to do with
anyone implying that the instrument rating is easy, or even that Jay
*should* get one (I personally have never said it's a requirement...Jay
clearly finds his own flying enjoyable and convenient without an instrument
rating, and it's not my place to say he should feel otherwise).

It seems to me that if you think I'm being unfair in my reference to the
instrument rating, then you have not understood why it is I refer to it in
the first place. Perhaps that's my fault for not being clear, but the fact
is that nothing you appear to have inferred from my comment about it has
anything to do with what I actually was writing about.

Pete