Originally Posted by
Jay Sata
John
I appreciate you are a well experienced Aussie helicopter pilot who has flown nice well organised flights
in expensive kit.
With all due respect I paid for my helicopter PPL at Jandakot in 1989 but spent 8 years flying across Wales in a single engine fixed wing aircraft and often in winter at night.
The low end of fixed wing and rotary flying.
Have you ever flown accross the mountains of North Wales,day or night?
Aware of tigerfish's comment, but yes I am experienced in UK flying: my first PPL was at Stapleford Tawney in 1965. I was hiking the Brecons in 1962, abseiling with the RAF MR as well, before flying all areas of Wales in a later life. I'm a Londoner by birth and didn't come to Australia until 1979.
I even paid for my own flying at times in nice well organised (and less well organised) flights in expensive kit: that I owned and paid for
Research is letting you down again.
Originally Posted by
Jay Sata
Australian weather is quite predictable.
Australia does not have rapid weather changes in a matter of under an hour.
You obviously have no idea of the weather in the Australian Alps: where I ran a winter operation for 10+ years.