Chinook - Still Hitting Back 3 (Merged)

[walter kennedy]

Funny how you English are so happy talking about the weather!
…. while not making the effort to go and see it.
It is not as though some random bad conditions were about – the general cloudbase was 1500 foot or so;
the weather of concern was generated by the landmass – all the descriptions fit with what was to have been expected at that time of day, at that time of year, with a strong prevailing southerly blowing – as I have described often, and has been up there every summer for 16 years for you to familiarise yourselves with.
The Mull is featureless apart from the lighthouse and so if any ground texture is blurred by a layer of thin mist you have a difficult job judging range off it.
The problem the weather presented to them was only if for whatever reason they had to approach closely, in terms of identifying a specific spot and not overshooting it.
And the NHP had been there before and would have been well aware of that hazard of perception and would not have been anywhere so near, closing with it at speed, without some local guidance.