Whopity
Are you kidding me
, I am sure you read my post! I was trying to be a little poetic perhaps, but I am sure you would have understood from my post that:
IFR - is a state of mind, because if the weather is VMC you can elect to be IFR or VFR, but if the weather is IMC then you can only be IFR. Of course so we dont get into the usual pedantic discussion we all know that if you are in class A you can only be IFR even if the weather is VMC, (unless the class A goes to the ground, in which case you can be IFR or SVFR). Take it as read that if our clearance is IFR then you cant be VFR even if the weather is VMC. Also take it as read that legally you cant be IFR unless your license priviliges match the flight conditions and the class of airspace.
So to sum up IFR has everything to do with the weather because you must be IFR in IMC. You can elect (state of mind) to be either IFR or VFR in VMC.
There, do you feel better now?
I know, I know the old chestnut but I have a feeling you and I got to grips with it a long time ago and we dont need to score points on this one.