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.

Historical data ????

JT

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

JJ

PS. Gizzajob!

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

LZ

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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...

There's a distinct lack of RAF bases in the North West.

Only Woodvale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Woodvale

Not sure if they've got their own met people though.

Get a grip MG, didn't you know woodvale was there?

Then again, maybe you didn't ��

Ooops. I was thinking thinking of "proper" RAF airfields. :)