Fullrich and HWD
I couldnt agree more with both of you. If you are trained to deal with IFR conditions, even to a very basic degree, then by all means use that training and execute a 180 and get of of there.
However, the original post by buggingout states that the pilot has no IR or IMC and as a result I think that there are no circumstances under which IMC conditions should be entered. Without training, the odds of survival are massively stacked against you.
There dosent have to be bad wx to produce the accident the link above refers to. Last summer, two experiences pilots left EIWT for home in Wales and never made it. It was a beautiful summers day and it is suspected that they entered a fog bank near the Welsh coast and didnt survive. Pilot flying had an IMC rating.