FF, It was a devils advocate question not a reason to get into a fight.
It just occured to me that a bad weather circuit is flown at about 500 feet. So if your PPL without IMC has remained VFR, clear of cloud he has to have been flying VERY low to have remained clear of cloud and need a bad weather circuit. Rule 5 then comes into mind as well.
Getting caught out in that way shows very bad preflight planning? We are talking about the basic VFR PPL holder here not an IMC pilot prepared to accept poor minima.
Thoughts?