Not a particularly helpful post but something I found quite shocking.
A few weeks ago I was grounded for a couple of days at a certain French airport on the West coast due to very low cloud. A UK based Islander operating on a scheduled pax flight arrives and I promptly start a conversation about the weather over the channel, assuming that he was flying IFR. Turns out he had just crossed the channel at 800'
Must have been a fun flight for the pax onboard!
Does this happen often?
Cheers,
CapCon