Originally Posted by
englishal
Remembering of course this was the UK Met office which predicted a BBQ summer and Mild winter, and also officially supplies data to the IPCC....worrying eh?!
Throughout the last "ban" a friend of mine continued to fly his (company's) turboprop around. It was crazy, they were forced to fly VFR, even as far as spain (just so happens the French let them fly at any altitude pretty much DCT). On the ground there they met a 737 which had come from elsewhere in Europe, they had flown in VFR at FL170..
So CAA, people are flying, engines still work, but due to knee jerk reactions, safety is compromised again.
By pilots with excessive preson-itis, who won't just bite the bullet and decline to fly it sounds to me.
G