Wx
Hi Guys,
Between 2004 and 2006 I was working to renew a licence that had been expired for over 40 years.
I pretty soon realised that two out of three of my lesson bookings were failing to take place because of Wx.
So I got into the habit of booking three times as many bookings as I wanted and that worked a treat.
I'm not sure Gobal Warming is the entire cause of the crap Wx: exactly the same thing happened in 1960. I did my entire PPL in 21 days in glorious weather during June, (and this was in Manchester of all places; Britain's rainforest!). After the beginning of July, however, we had wet, squaly weather for months until the Autumn started.
In 1967 I returned to gliding at Booker and tried to get my gliding up to a decent standard. I booked two weeks holiday planning to spend it all at the gliding site. 'Same thing happened: after a few days good flying weather the monsoon broke and that was it for the rest of the summer.
Nowadays, I have a strong preference for winter flying, which I find to be far better than summer flying because of cool, stable atmospheric conditions. 'Much better.
Broomstick.