Baboon Boy, thanks for your input here and glad that you made it down safely.
For the sake of the wolves in this thread, there
was also a bank of in-rolling low cloud, right? Or was it far enough away not to bother you? Or was it the alcoholic haze from my pre-prandial glass or two?
An instance of irony has been mentioned before in this thread. Well, here's another one: I love watching low-flying aircraft! It's no problem to me.