Safety Question???

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Are they just being polite, or is there really a difference between “non-VMC” and IMC?

Dunno, maybe it was phrased that way because the flight was operating under VFR. Here’s another doozy - cropduster hits a car on takeoff, badly damaging the car, injuring one of the occupants, AND removing one of the cropduster’s wheels, but continues on with the cropdusting operation!

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If I recall correctly in FAA speak, there is no such thing as IMC. There is a Visual Meteorlogical Conditions (VMC) and non-VMC. VMC is defined by the clould and visibility. “IMC” or non-VMC is all else. IMC is a pilots fabrication. Useful, but not in the regs.

Marty