Hey Auto R
Chill a bit man, what you have to read is the R22 bit, in the UK this is purely a pleasure(?) machine, and when another Pilot looks up and sees that little bubble dissappear and then reappear whilst only 1.5 miles from known hidden rising ground thats surely the time to do either a 180 or land.
I take exactly what you mean about the pressure of work when you are a CPL, but you also then have kit that would get you home in many serious cloud?Wx situations.
Up here we live in clouds most of the winter months, and knowing the spots to look for gives me a fairly better than average guess at the cloudbase.
I hope the pilot got home ok, had it been me, I'd be in the old Land Rover!
Vfr
