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Old 1st Mar 2009, 10:52
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Droopystop
 
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There but for the grace of God go us all.

Weather reports from offshore need to be far better than they are. All to often there is no cloud base reported at night because "its dark". Fair comment of course. But in this day and age we should expect each platform (or at least field of platforms) to have cloud base and viz measuring equipment and report changes to the crews as they approach. All too often we are suckered in by optimistic/inaccurate reports resulting in go arounds and short notice ARAs.
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