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jayteeto
8th Mar 2016, 14:16
We are putting together a business case for an IFR helicopter operation in the NW of England. Google searches have produced annual temperature and rainfall statistics, which is great. However, does anyone know of a source that will give indications of cloudbase/fog for any of the north west airports? The reason for this is to assess how many days a year would be lost to weather.
helimutt
8th Mar 2016, 16:16
Historical data (http://openweathermap.org/history) ????
jellycopter
8th Mar 2016, 16:49
JT
Ogimet has historical tafs and metars; might take a bit of trawling though.
JJ
PS. Gizzajob!
Hot_LZ
8th Mar 2016, 18:10
Met office can provide you with historical records for pretty much everything in specific areas of the UK. It'll cost you though.
LZ
MightyGem
8th Mar 2016, 18:26
How about this, JT? Liverpool's obs for the past 12 months.
Weather History for Liverpool, United Kingdom | Weather Underground (http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/EGGP/2015/3/8/CustomHistory.html?dayend=8&monthend=3&yearend=2016&req_city=&req_state=&req_statename=&reqdb.zip=&reqdb.magic=&reqdb.wmo=)
jayteeto
8th Mar 2016, 18:54
Marvellous, thanks. It's not a new set up, sorry no jobs JJ. It's a study for an increase in capability. Will have a trawl through the data
vortexadminman
8th Mar 2016, 20:51
Yep Ask NW Air Ambo and Police units ( I know they are VFR) but unless your helicopter has tons of fuel gotta have somewhere to go in NW.
ask Cheshire/GB Helicopters............or maybe not!:\:\
ShyTorque
9th Mar 2016, 12:03
Yep Ask NW Air Ambo and Police units ( I know they are VFR) but unless your helicopter has tons of fuel gotta have somewhere to go in NW.
JT2, I suggest you march yourself to the nearest mirror, or phone yourself up! :p
jayteeto
9th Mar 2016, 17:32
Ha! Asked the mirror, but some idiot in there didn't know the answer!
Of interest, the Air Ambulance pilots all hold IRs and regularly do IFR onshore transfers.
jayteeto
9th Mar 2016, 17:34
The data I am after is all to formalise fuel requirements using NW airports
Viper 7
9th Mar 2016, 17:47
Any RAF base in the area would have this data, I imagine.
A nice letter to the base commander would likely do the trick, maybe a decent jug of hooch for the Met tech...
MightyGem
27th Mar 2016, 16:00
Any RAF base in the area
There's a distinct lack of RAF bases in the North West.
switch_on_lofty
30th Mar 2016, 19:55
Only Woodvale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Woodvale
Not sure if they've got their own met people though.
jayteeto
30th Mar 2016, 20:51
Get a grip MG, didn't you know woodvale was there?
Then again, maybe you didn't ��
MightyGem
31st Mar 2016, 13:07
Ooops. I was thinking thinking of "proper" RAF airfields. :)