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Old 25th Oct 2020, 02:33
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helicrazi
 
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Originally Posted by SimonK
Indeed.. I was flying that day into Scatsta and have a photo somewhere at about the same time the 332 crashed, i seem to recall it was glorious weather and in my experience of 7 years of flying out of there, my opinion is that the weather was generally significantly better at Scatsta than down at Sumburgh which was I believe, one of the original factors behind the decision to start Scatsta up again all those years ago. Sadly the islands aren’t big enough (or the oil price isn’t anymore) to support 2 IFR airfields in the Shetlands.
You and I have different interpretations of glorious...

Having reread the report, the 1720 at Scatsta (within minutes of the accident) the vis was 4700m and cloud overcast at 300ft.
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