Bookworm, 421C, etc
OK let me try and make this as simple as possible.
You want to fly VFR from Glasgow to Southampton.
You check the weather and there is a front across your route and based on the actual and forecast weather you determine that there is IMC from the surface to 25000ft along a large part of your route.
Are you seriously telling me that it is OK to depart for Southampton?
If you do then by your own admission you have departed on a VFR flight that will not be VFR which is illegal.
In departing you are either;
a) Unable to determine that it is IMC and think that it "might" be VMC and are going to "give it a go"; or
b) Know it is IMC and are going anyway
a) is simple a lack of knowledge / practice / training.
b) Is plain stupid and illegal.
To make a VFR flight you must have VMC.
I highlight the above which is the law because;
Some people seem to think otherwise which is a sad indication that the very thing we are discussing are deaths due to not paying attention to the above.
Perhaps there will always be a core of people who will not learn.
Regards,
DFC