Tiger, tiger, burning bright.....
Geriaviator,
Lovely picture of a lovely little aeroplane ! It's hard to think it's an eighty years old design now.
I flew it occasionally over the years, but always in warm sunny weather. I would think you'd need to wrap up well in winter. I think the RCAF had a canopied one for their frozen wastes.
I suppose that the great majority of the pilots who won their Brevets in WW2 started on the Tiger; I was always surprised how an apparently flimsy thing like that stood up to EFTS service, but it did. They put me in the Stearman for my first sixty hours in the US, it was heavier, more powerful and tougher than a Tiger and IMHO, more suitable for the job - but every man to his taste !
You have all the tolerance you want ! Ramble on ! (the pics are wonderful, too).
Cheers, Danny.