Originally Posted by coodem
Did a pre flight, took off by the time I was at 500 feet I saw all the clouds nearing in, next minute I was in the middle of the whole lot. It was as if someone put the duvet over the aircraft. Could not even see the prop in front of me, I was around 1000ft AGL,
I learned that one when doing my PPL. We were going to do some dual circuits and it looked just OK perhaps 800ft when pre-flighting. By the time we got to the end of the runway it had got worse as when I took off the cloudbase was nearer 400 ft. My instructor showed me how to do a low level circuit and we landed. He then said "I expected you to see how bad it was and decide to not take off, but thought I would let you learn for yourself!"
I certainly did - thanks Kev. Always best to learn when you have some experience on board rather than solo!