this is great info guys, cheers, ye my thought was over the wet stuff to be as high as possible but with this 35 airway figured I'd be smelling the salt.
I much prefer the IFR style vectors and routing than the own nav/visual so coming in high sounds like a better idea.
One thing I forgot to mention was I'm doing my IMC (while I can !) at the mo but doubt I'll have it for when I go, I can get the UK Taf's metars and the CH ones but haven't found any detailed weather on the channel is there the possibility of different weather at sea ?
Thanks for all the info.