SRD is correct, all certs and kit in order but that does raise an interesting question, my understanding of the required equipment for IFR flight is your aircraft must have the equipment necessary to utilise (navigate and land) the navaids on your intended route of the flight, destination or alternate, but what if you only had access to an aircraft with a wet compass and a six pack and no nav radios or gps nav and just wanted to practice holding headings and altitudes in the clouds but outside controlled airspace and your take off and destination fields were reporting VFR for miles
So you're saying the flight was also conducted on an IFR plan using promulgated routes?
I got the impression from the tenor of the original post that the flight was a local flight not conducted on an IFR plan nor on IFR routes and outside controlled airspace. Was I wrong?
If not I cannot see how this is a smart idea or even legal. What if some other idiot is doing the same thing in the same piece of cloud?