Its a huge sky and most other people avoid flying in clouds.
And you can fly into clouds in controlled airspace as well its just that you have to tell the controller before you do it.
There are more mid air collisions in VMC than there are in IMC. You could actually argue that it is safer flying in clouds than outside them from having a mid air point of view.
Personally when operating in class G a solid cloud base at 600ft and viz 1000m with a freezing level of 2000ft means I have less to worry about in respect to having a mid air than when the wx is CAVOK.
Last edited by mad_jock; 1st Jun 2012 at 08:41.