Oldnotbold, forgive me for asking but were you in imc before the engine failure, or as a result of it? It sounds like before, and you must have been relying on more than a imc rating (valid only in uk) in that case? Or did you chose to fly imc? None of my business, beyond curiosity as to whether you were perhaps vmc on top, and whether your imc had tempted you to rely on your skills to be safe either in imc or vfr on top, ie to put yourself in a position that a non imc ppl might seek to avoid. No doubt it saved you, but didnt it also tempt you? I ask, not to judge, but to debate and understand the temptation side of the coin, in uk and abroad.