Thank you for your reply BOAC.
Unfortunately our Ops Manual gives no guidance other than to say that the weather at home plate and alternate must be within limits. As it stands I am applying all the tempo and prob groupings to cover my six, however it is having a detrimental affect on what I can and cannot do.
Notwithstanding the above, I am not for a moment advocating that I should ignore TAFS (I could not legally) and I have a healthy respect for the weather and would always aim to be safe rather than sorry. However flying a helicopter as I do, it is often frustrating when a very pessimistic prob 30 grouping in a TAF, hamstrings my efforts, especially when I can look at the local weather and see that it isn't perhaps as bad as the TAF is predicting.
Last edited by C.King; 20th Oct 2006 at 19:42.
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