The same way that I would depart on an IFR flight from A to B with B below IFR minima: with a clear alternate plan if the reports are unchanged and/or the forecasts are correct.
No. In that case on a VFR flight you are departing on a flight from A to C or from A to A with the posibility of an in-flight diversion to B should the weather be better than expected.
To say that you were flying from A to B is to say that you are departing VFR knowing that there is IMC on the chosen route.
Would you recomend that people do that?
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Scooter boy,
Did you speak with the pilot......perhaps provide some "feedback"?
More importantly, did you report the pilot?
No?
Then you assisted them by covering up their illegal operation.
It is time that pilots started taking a stand against the anti-social law breakers and those that encourage such flying because they are the ones who are going to ruin it for the rest.
Put Blackpool in the USA. Does anyone believe that the flight that departed "VFR" into a 200ft cloud base would not be met by the feds at the destination or do you not think that if they had managed to get back safely that they would not have received a visit from the feds with some serioud questions about their flying?
Never mind the Feds, the local CFI would be having a sharp word in the earhole of those who locally flout the regs.
There is a big difference between in the first case people who make a mistake or mis-judge or make a planning error and through that mistake / error end up breaking the law and in the second case, people that knowingly break the law.
Regards,
DFC