IFR just 5.4% of the time

What about flying IFR at night? If it's dark enough that you can't see much
outside, you get the benefits of IFR without many of the dangers of IMC. You
can just fly regular night flights IFR and maintain your currency that way,
and yet you won't be stressed by bad weather to worry about.


One can certainly file and fly an IFR flight plan in VMC at night -- I
do that all of the time. But, because it's VMC, the PIC has an
obligation to see and avoid other traffic. That PIC will be making
some of his flight control decisions based on the outside world, it's
not the same as flying by only reference to instruments. To have
meaningful experience be under the hood or in a cloud!

You are, are you not, the person who not so long ago claimed there was
no visual outside reference in IMC, indicating a lack of understanding
what IMC is? Have you repaired that deficit?