"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message
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Well, except in a previous post, he said:
Also, if the weather is VFR, there is nothing stopping us VFR pilots from
filing an IFR flight plan and flying in, as long as we maintain VFR

There was, in fact, already an answer to that question. IMHO, it makes more
sense to address questions in the post to which one is replying, rather than
those found elsewhere.

Since he referred to himself as "us VFR pilots", it would indeed be a FAR
violation for him to file and fly an IFR flight plan, even if he did it in
VMC.

The question in the post to which Newps and I were responding asked "if YOU
could get away with simply filing an IFR flight plan and flying it
maintaining VFR the entire time" (emphasis on "you" mine). Not "us".
"You". Now, granted, not all of us are instrument rated, but many of us
are, and in any case the use of the word "you" there is a colloquial way of
saying "a person in general".

Pete