Skycop/RVR800/Soaring Sprog/Chicken6
Many thanks for your interesting observations.
To answer specific points:
Skycop - the airmass was stable, but there was heavy rain about in some areas (NS.)
Chicken 6 - we entered tracking towards Dover and exited roughly pointing towards Ostend.
Skycop - I empathise with you about the plummeting feeling with the VSI against the bottom stop - At least we were in IMC and couldn't see the ground rush!
RVR800 - interesting that you example demonstrates a transient blockage and that it was the FCL guy who diagnosed it. In our case, with a student PPL, there would have been no sanity check for the IR pilot who had to take over in very difficult circumstances, i.e. sitting in RHS with parallax view of instruments.
[This message has been edited by JamesG (edited 21 November 2000).]