Hmm, I used to have no sympathy with a PPL who get caught out by the weather, a few weeks ago I thought I'd go on a jolly old jaunt around Cornwall and see what this low level, bad weather Nav is all about. Scud running at 1000' just below the clouds, terrain up to 1300' around me...well aerials were somewhere out there but I couldn't see them. RIS not much good at that level, cloudbase lowering and closing in around me....I would have been seriously concerned had I not had instrument experience, instead I thought boogger that and climbed to FL40 and headed home in the clag. My only advice to PPL's who want to mess with the weather is to get an Instrument qualification or a helicopter [so you can land
]. A mayday in this situation is not really much good, especially when you start to flap.
Cheers
EA