Originally Posted by
englishal
Trial by pprune again is it? (I've skipped a few posts but I can get the gist)....
My point is that this one bloke above us was complaining that we could not have been VFR when in actual fact we were in VMC....get the point?
Debates about "is the viz sufficient for VMC" or "where was the cloud base" can run for ever because it can look very different from different places. A pilot calling from overhead your position claiming to be visible with the surface when you are looking up at solid overcast is using a very elastic definition of VMC.
Much more likely the guy didn't really think about (as in posts 50 and 15)