Walter Kennedy
Re your Post 3511 - compare your assertions with post 3516 from Tandemrotor.
20 years to the day before this tragedy I was instructing on the Refresher Flying Sqn at RAF Leeming - at least I would have been except we did not do any flying that day BECAUSE WE WERE TOO BUSY ENGAGED IN SNOW CLEARANCE.
The United Kingdom does not have a climate - IT HAS WEATHER!!