"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
ups.com...

I would have liked this story better if you said "a scattered layer of
puffy clouds developed at around 4000 MSL, so I called approach for a
pop-up
IFR clearance so we could go cloud dancing..."

A pop-up IFR clearance to go cloud dancing?

Why not? Then if you want to fly through a larger cloud, you can do that
too. Unless you're in the middle of a busy approach corridor, you can ask
for a block altitude, radius of present location, or whatever. People
believe you can't do fun stuff like sightseeing or cloud chasing VFR...sure
you can, just need a clearance to do it.


Although there are many valid reasons to obtain an IR, IMHO your
example isn't one of them.

I appologize as I must have misread your post. I interpreted "dipping a
wing in the little puffies" as flying closer than 500 feet below the cloud,
1000 feet above, or 2000 feet laterally. I'm sorry for the
misunderstanding.