Flight Crew Private; Flight Crew Instrument
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 46.8; Flight Crew Total 4608.7; Flight Crew Type 3724.3
Situational Awareness; Other / Unknown
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural FAR; Ground Event / Encounter Object; Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT; Inflight Event / Encounter Object; Inflight Event / Encounter VFR In IMC
Aircraft Aircraft Damaged; Flight Crew Became Reoriented
Human Factors; Weather
While on a VFR flight; I decreased altitude to maintain visual conditions and inadvertently lost visual contact with the ground for a couple of seconds as I entered a low cloud. I brushed the left wing on a tree or brush top before I was able to ascend and enter visual conditions. I returned back to ZZZ and landed uneventfully. Once back in my hangar; I noticed a few dents on the bottom side of the left outboard section of the wing and a slight bend in 1 prop blade. There was no damage to any other property or injury to any others and no injury to me. The incident occurred in a remote location.
M20 pilot reports inadvertently entering IMC on a VFR flight at low altitude and contacting trees or brush with his left wing before climbing to VMC. Dents in the left wing and a damaged propeller blade are detected on post flight.