I can't believe Shy is getting so much stick when he is the one talking total sense !! Some of the stuff about ATC and going VFR until you get to an airport are just nonsense and if you operated like that here you would firstly lose your licence ( for scud running ) and also lose your customers!!! There
are so many parts of UK with no ATC and no low level radio . If you have surveyed the site , which you will have done during your landing , it is unrealistic to say you cannot take off with enough viz to transition into a climb VFR .
I always thought our rules in UK were over demanding but you Yanks take it to another level if you really cannot lift into IFR outside a control zone without ATC !!!