The devil's breath
We were supposed to land on the plains ahead - beneath the fog.
Nice pics RD, although that fog shot chilled me to the bone more than all those ice snaps put together. We get fog in the valleys west of Sydney & it scares the living daylights out of me. I'm prepared to auto into trees or water on an engine failure, its the risk you have to accept with flying a chopper over those areas. But please God not over fog! Can you imagine descending into that murk? The loss of an horizon, no clues on when to flare, my own personal nightmare.
Its evil stuff. One trip west the goop below me started to rise with the heat of the day & I had to climb the R22 as fast as its little Lycomasuar 320 could carry it to escape the bloody ascending pooh. Maybe with global warming fog will die out some day? Think I'll go switch the aircon on!
Congrats on your flying opportunity near Santas place, what a great job you've got! But stay away from the devil's breath!