Incidentally, can you get done for illegal IFR if you state (e.g. in writing) that you flew in cloud while "VFR"?
I thought this was impossible to prosecute, because a self-implication like that can always be retracted. The writer can say "I was only kidding" and bang goes the prosecution evidence.
There have been loads of cases of pilots writing about having done illegal stuff. Some in the UK mags too - I recall one bloke writing about flying in IMC in France, on his IMCR.
I am sure there is case law on this...