In my days as an instructor at 622 Old Sarum, the first duty of the day was to phone the met office at Upavon for the official RAF Gliding forecast. One morning, I had driven up from the south coast through very thick fog and, sitting in the gliding office, I couldn't see the airfield at all as I picked up the phone to call them.
The forecaster at Upavon read off the official RAF forecast and was copied by me onto the standard RAF form. An excellent forecast and no mention of fog whatsoever. So I said that this suggested that the fog would clear pretty quickly. "Fog?" he said. "You've got fog?".
To be fair, it did clear quite quickly into an brilliant gliding day.
Last edited by pulse1; 11th Jun 2012 at 17:08.