TOTD -
the weather was so bad that we had to go all the way round the tip of the Lleyn Peninsula and down the coast past Aberystwyth
Ok, not wishing to willy wave but! DEC 1998 Valley to London with, I presume, a VIP with friends in VERY high places requiring an urgent medevac (liver transplant). Night, cloud cover extensive with embedded cb and down to 300ft over land and sea, snow showers and icing if we'd gone IMC. So, 200 feet, rad alt hold engaged, 3 prs of NVG plus radar right the way down the coast to the Bristol Channel, turn left, two bridges clear so eventually speaking to Heathrow we were able to climb with reported cloud tops of 5000ft. Return journey made with emergency cloud break over Lyneham having gone IMC following the M4 and unable to cross a motorway bridge due to low cloud. Reason for return rather than nite stop? We had the only consultant surgeon and two specialist nurses from Ysbyty Gwynedd on board and they needed 'em back. Craziest job I ever did.
