Fitter 2
No we dont go through large lumps of cumulous mainly because its bumpy for passengers.
I will aslo give you that there are varying degrees of IMC. The type that wouldnt appeal to Glider pilots ie cloudbase 600 feet and solid all the way up and as you put it mainly VFR with fairly well dispersed large cumulous or towering cumulous. In the second that would not create a major hazard.
Just through interest how much of an IMC conditions do you fly in? There are days when there is a mixture of small, large, towering and Cbs all mixed together where we normally use eyes and radar to find a way through. To me that is pretty well IMC with small patches of VMC.
There are also days which are fairly IMC with Mountain wave cloud.
I am trying to get a better understanding of your operations
Pace :-)