Why are non-IFR pilots allowed to fly solo?

That's like asking why people who don't have an Air Brake licence are allowed to drive a car !!!

I have flown all over CANADA with nothing but a private pilot's ticket. And most of that was alone or with a non licenced passenger. And 95% of the pilots who land here DO NOT have an IFR Rating. And what would be the point anyway since most of the planes that land here are not IFR equipped anyway.

IFR rating is like adding to the existing license. Basic pilot license, then add IFR. Basic is fair weather only.

Because that is not the order of primacy! Meaning to get to an IFR license a pilot must first learn how to fly VRF. If a person can not master VRF then they could not fly IFR. Don't forget that between the two is the qualification of IR.

An IFR rating isn’t all its cracked up to be.

It’s useless in condition they send student pilots out to solo in.

It’s not 100% useful in most conditions private pilots fly in. This is because light aircraft often operate below IFR safe altitudes, they can not cope with IFR weather (minimal ice protection, no weather radar, no redundant instruments or power sources, no autopilot), and your typical private pilot even if he or she files IFR doesn’t have enough experience or currency in actual IMC to safely control the aircraft by instruments alone.

Of course, if they flew the Peking Boulevard it wouldn’t matter because it’s the world’s only fully automated aircraft.

@ JohnR why don’t you try and go IFR over the Rockies in a Cessna 150, then? Or in cloud with embedded CBs and TCUs over the Midwest in any aircraft without a weather radar, you schmuck?

Because you can fly safely by looking where you are going and not just using instruments.