I was at Glasgow when this guy arrived, escorted by the police helicopter. It was my son who said to me that the event had happened, I had my head under the cowling looked up and said don't be daft. Read the paper today, and low and behold he was accurate. The cloud base was 900, with a lateral viz of 7k, at the time, with heavy shower activity. We were gong to go flying but due to weather did not. The end result here was positive, but could easily have not had such an ending. There have been a number of times when I have been flying south, having departed very marginal VFR, and have listened to Scottish Info giving weather updates, and still pilots soldier on northward into lowering cloud base. Never quite understood why???