Sorry to disagree with you John but I am at the lower end of the food chain.
I doubt you have ever experienced how quickly weather in Wales can overcome a single crew private pilot.
I also have flown the low end helicopters such as the Rotorway which makes a Robbo feel like a BMW.
The topic we are discussing here is a single crew private helicopter pilot leaving Southern England in a nice well equipped helicopter with a destination of Dublin with a fuel stop en route.
Sadly he missed the bit in the middle in his flight plan.
Perhaps you can show us how you would flight plan that?
I do appreciate you have substantial multi crew experience ,and have flown the Snowden mountain area from RAF Valley ,but have you ever got in to a sticky situation low level in bad weather as the only pilot up front?
Do you know what it feels like in a small aircraft IMC being thrown around the sky and trying to focus on the panel?
Not nice!
Death staring you in the face.
Last edited by Mike Flynn; 11th Apr 2017 at 00:48.