Originally Posted by
JimEli
...Without a specific delineated procedure, maybe the accident pilot was attempting to perform exactly what his GOM (at the time) instructed him to do, “pilots will never take an aircraft into IMC…” As best he could.
As "best he could"..." “pilots will never take an aircraft into IMC" we know he did make a decision to enter a climb in IMC to find VMC on top. So the "best he could" part of that theory probably doesn't apply when there was a “pilots will never take an aircraft into IMC" option to land or turn around.