A story of VMC into IMC

[SuperSixBravo]

Wow guys today I have had one of the most intense flights in the sim ever. I would like to explain why and see what others think. This was undoubtable bad piloting on my behalf but I have learnt a lot. I gained my PPL IRL a good few years ago, but I dont fly any more and I never got to do my Instrument rating. However I have never experienced VMC into IMC like this before, as I said bad piloting on my behalf I should of turned back.

So the route was LEFR to EGMD across the English channel in the default 172 G1000 .
Start of the flight was good, bad weather above me.

At this point I should have turned back or diverted, Bad piloting. But I pressed on. Thinking I could fly below it, and ATC would not clear me to 4000 (Using Pilot2ATC)

No w things are taking a turn for the worst, I decide to go IFR and request an IFR plan, I’m on the look out for weather and I approaching the English channel. Again bad piloting.

Now I’m getting Icing and its building up fast. Within in the next 5 mins by air speed drops I get the stall warning, I recover from the stall, ATC screaming I am off course and not at my ALT. You cant really declare an emergency in Pilot2ATC or not that I can see, any I recover and continue. Light pink on the nextrad means Light freezing rain…

Finally I break the cloud and shoot the ILS at EMGD

All ends well I make the landing I could see the Runway from 10nm out and made the landing.

What I learnt from this is:
Never underestimate the weather and MSFS models weather and icing mostly very well.
That was one intense flight.

Thanks for reading, feedback welcome!

[SweetMia30]

Nice story with a good ending.
My brother and I flying a world tour in C172 G1000. We had a hairy moment yesterday. Bad weather but without icing.
Our goal is to visit every capital city in the world. But we tend to stay away from the major airports and land in the small ones, usually grass strips where possible. We would fly IFR and cancel it 10nm to airport to join the traffic patern. Yesterday we decended to traffic patern altitude but had no visual with the runway. We where circling in the traffic pattern around runway until the rain cleared and successfully landed. Bad piloting om our part as we shouldn’t have been in the traffic patern in IMC. We wanted to divert to nearby major airport but couldn’t figure out how to do it in vanilla ATC.