What is meant by "RIP" anyway?

[DX Wombat]

Backpacker, that was a very good post and said much better what I was trying to say. As has been rightly pointed out, we were not present and although we can imagine how things may have been especially with regard to the weather we cannot know for certain. As an example of this a short tale of my own: I recently set off for an IMC lesson with a very experienced instructor (thousands and thousands of hours in C152s). It was rather gusty but nothing too severe but on reaching 1'500' it became obvious that it was much worse higher up so we decided to abandon the flight. I am well aware that there can often be windshear at one particular point on final but was surprised by the severity of it that day. I wasn't too happy with my ability to cope so the instructor landed it. It was a somewhat interesting landing but having returned safely to the clubhouse he remarked that he too had been VERY surprised by the rate at which we had lost height. My point is that others had been out flying in the circuit only minutes earlier and had not experienced anything out of the ordinary. To all intents and purposes the weather looked exactly the same when we took off as it had when they had been airborne but was actually very different. We may think we know what it was like from METARs etc. but that isn't necessarily so.