Unsuitable diversions
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One day, during my METS course, I was programmed for the early wave. Early met brief was held in the METS planning room; the Met Office at Finningley was upstairs in the same building.
I cycled in from the Mess in the pouring rain - it was coming down in stair rods.
As we sat there in the brief, all gently steaming, the duty Met man informed us that there was no chance of rain that day.
I guess he hadn't bothered to look out of the window.
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Certainly in my day we were expected to be able to provide a reasonable shot for the forecast weather for anywhere on our chart coverage, but there had to be provisos [not "weasel words"] well understood by the aircrew.
These include things like valley fog around dawn and all the usual.
For our bases in the UK we had a crib book describing weather characteristics.
These do/did not exist for foreigners.
Certainly in my day we were expected to be able to provide a reasonable shot for the forecast weather for anywhere on our chart coverage, but there had to be provisos [not "weasel words"] well understood by the aircrew.
These include things like valley fog around dawn and all the usual.
For our bases in the UK we had a crib book describing weather characteristics.
These do/did not exist for foreigners.
Not aviation as such, but "met" related. We have a friend who lives in Cambridge and thinks the place the epicentre of the universe. She claims that bad weather always misses the city. This Spring I e-mailed to check she was OK after the gales and rain. She replied that the bad weather as usual had missed Cambridge. The only response I could muster was to copy a photo from the local paper of a large tree blown down in the next road but one to where she lives and e-mail it. Response - zilch!
I almost felt sorry for the met man at MPA...
Brief as Grn wx, looked ok as I signed the F700, noticed it was clouding over rapidly as we walked. Light snow by the time I'd finished the walk round and the top of the Timmy hangar was out in low cloud and blizzard by the time I was about to start. Canx the trip, walked back inside. Time elapsed since finishing the brief was 20-25 minutes. Back in Ops a "Met Special" warned that heavy showers of snow were likely......
Brief as Grn wx, looked ok as I signed the F700, noticed it was clouding over rapidly as we walked. Light snow by the time I'd finished the walk round and the top of the Timmy hangar was out in low cloud and blizzard by the time I was about to start. Canx the trip, walked back inside. Time elapsed since finishing the brief was 20-25 minutes. Back in Ops a "Met Special" warned that heavy showers of snow were likely......
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Usually Wildenrath's crash div. Always Blue until you were diverted and found the colours got prettier as you got closer until you arrived and they were Amber/Red. They got paid for being a diversion.
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All you need to know about Harry
http://www.pprune.org/aviation-histo...s-eh-what.html
But what of the Great God Clamp
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Laarbruch mid 70's. Massed morning briefing (WW2 style) Metman advances to podium and states "Fog" and returns to the back. Staish stands and asks for more detail. Metman walks back to podium and says " friggin thick fog".
True story I was there!
True story I was there!
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Even more succinct was the OC Ops at our very very furthest south base who would go into Met. and ask:
"Good **** or Bad ****?"
He only needed a two syllable reply for his personal brief to be concluded.
"Good **** or Bad ****?"
He only needed a two syllable reply for his personal brief to be concluded.
