Weather Stats for Helicopter Operation

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8th March 2016 | 14:16

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jayteeto

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Weather Stats for Helicopter Operation

We are putting together a business case for an IFR helicopter operation in the NW of England. Google searches have produced annual temperature and rainfall statistics, which is great. However, does anyone know of a source that will give indications of cloudbase/fog for any of the north west airports? The reason for this is to assess how many days a year would be lost to weather.

8th March 2016 | 16:16

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helimutt

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Historical data ????

8th March 2016 | 16:49

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jellycopter

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JT

Ogimet has historical tafs and metars; might take a bit of trawling though.

JJ

PS. Gizzajob!

8th March 2016 | 18:10

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Hot_LZ

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Met office can provide you with historical records for pretty much everything in specific areas of the UK. It'll cost you though.

LZ

8th March 2016 | 18:26

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MightyGem

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How about this, JT? Liverpool's obs for the past 12 months.
Weather History for Liverpool, United Kingdom | Weather Underground

8th March 2016 | 18:54

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jayteeto

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Marvellous, thanks. It's not a new set up, sorry no jobs JJ. It's a study for an increase in capability. Will have a trawl through the data

8th March 2016 | 20:51

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vortexadminman

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Yep Ask NW Air Ambo and Police units ( I know they are VFR) but unless your helicopter has tons of fuel gotta have somewhere to go in NW.

9th March 2016 | 09:27

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ask Cheshire/GB Helicopters............or maybe not!

9th March 2016 | 12:03

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Yep Ask NW Air Ambo and Police units ( I know they are VFR) but unless your helicopter has tons of fuel gotta have somewhere to go in NW.

JT2, I suggest you march yourself to the nearest mirror, or phone yourself up!

9th March 2016 | 17:32

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jayteeto

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Ha! Asked the mirror, but some idiot in there didn't know the answer!
Of interest, the Air Ambulance pilots all hold IRs and regularly do IFR onshore transfers.

9th March 2016 | 17:34

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jayteeto

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The data I am after is all to formalise fuel requirements using NW airports

9th March 2016 | 17:47

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Any RAF base in the area would have this data, I imagine.

A nice letter to the base commander would likely do the trick, maybe a decent jug of hooch for the Met tech...