![]() Which they then referred to say on a flight from London to Lagos, which back then could take a day or two! In my father's day, pilots were expected to accumulate all these various readings from along a proposed route and create their own weather map showing fronts, anticyclones etc. Taking real weather readings and transmitting them to a central bureau rather than satellites making a guess from cloud cover and temperatures and faulty computer modelling. In those days weather prediction was in many ways far more accurate than today as it was done by real people standing on the decks of weather ships, lighthouses, airports etc. As luck had it I managed to pass, and so commenced a career in flying. ![]() Introduction I well remember when I took up flying eons ago, my instructor saying that meteorology was an inexact science, and in order to pass the exams by and large you had to put yourself in the mind-set of the examiner because the questions were so ambiguously asked that any one of 3 answers could be deemed correct.
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