Present weather conditions ( rain.) has tempted me to recount a shared flight I had with a fellow syndicate IMC rated pilot, on a trip from Sleap to Elstree.
He flew our C172 there, in very good VMC, following his magenta line, as they do..!
I had the return trip, but bumped into a wall of rain clouds around Clee Hill. So my tactic was to descend to 550ft agl to remain in VMC. However it got worse, and maybe below legal VMC conditions. So I handed control to my friend, who seemed to be worried about Minimum Safety Altitude, and he decided we needed to climb to 2100ft, where the rain was even worse with zero visibility. No sooner than we had climbed, we broke out of the back side of the rain-cloud into cavok again.
I think this just shows the different strategies of VFR and IFR flight.
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