IFR in motorglider?

ADP wrote:
Interesting.

While I doubt any motor glider can meet the requirements for flying IFR (and
no unpowered glider can),


Goodness no. I believe unpowered gliders can and have
flown in controlled airspace, and under IFR, and quite recently and
legally in the USA. There was a recent high-altitude downwind dash
in wave over the Sierras by a savy, experienced ATP that did just
this, IIRC. Somebody who doesn't have to rush home
for dinner like I must can perhaps chime in here...


flying in clouds in uncontrolled airspace seems to
be a simple matter of having an instrument rating and having no day VFR
restrictions in your glider handbook or operating restrictions.


Goodness, yes. Carl Herold by secondhand info seems
to have 300 hrs + glider IMC this way. But again, I may
be deifying him rather than stating fact...best to
get his input directly I suspect...


Although a bit rare, none of this seems outside of the
realm of legality. Certainly very risky if one
chooses needle, ball, airspeed alone without
much recent experience this way, but
not illegal with certain caveats.

Personally I'd SURE want an AI too...
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Mark Boyd
Avenal, California, USA