PiperBoy I can remember being stuck by a pretty nasty front lying west to East across northern Scotland. Having just got in through a wall of CBs IFR and finding a small gap towards Aberdeen I did not relish the fact of departing IFR blind into that weather.
Looking at the satellite pictures of the weather it was blood red in a line but clear to the western isles and I elected to fly low level along Loch Ness to that clear weather to the west and then head south.
Set off VFR under the 800 foot cloud base but down the lock I was being forced lower and lower and the visibility was dropping further and further.
i was in a twin and kept the loch visual below me knowing there was high ground to the side.
i was then at 200 feet above the lake and the vis was atrocious in rain. When wisps of cloud started appearing below my 200 feet I decided enough was enough and climbed to the MSA for the area taking the rough ride in cloud till I burst out into blue sky to the west.
We have all done crazy things sometimes
