Originally Posted by
Cornish Jack
diginagain - I had a look at that report and it is a bit 'bare-bones'. From memory - local flying possibly low-level search. Low cloud base and fog/mist. In a valley with options to hover-taxi out or climb above S Alt and RTB on instruments. Climbed and found themselves in a Cb . Unable to control climb and (as we understood it) suffered catastrophic damage at 12000'. The W10 was a lovely machine to fly visually but it had NO natural stability (indeed, just the opposite) and had no stabilising add-ons such as the Wessex SAS. It was operable IMC but I wouldn't suggest it was a 'favoured platform'!
Not a place I would venture into knowingly, but the threat of inadvertent IMC with the possibility of entering an embedded CB cell does concentrate the mind.