Latest Weather Report – Moray Riviera

A wee bittie snow the morn…if I can keep the drive and our road clear in this weather, what sort of nincompoops are running Heathrow? Inverness and RAF Kinloss runways: Both clear….

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Author: coldwaterjohn

CWJ travelled extensively with his family, having worked in eleven countries over thirty years. A keen photographer, holding a Private Pilot's Licence, he focuses mainly on landscape and aerial imagery. Having worked in the Middle East extensively he follows developments in that region with particular interest, and views with growing concern, the radicalisation flowing from Islamic fundamentalism, and the intolerance for opposing views, stemming from it.

9 thoughts on “Latest Weather Report – Moray Riviera”

  1. Noncy Suvverners CWJ.

    I feel sorry for all those people bivvying at the terminal, I remember how I hated it when my flights were cancelled cos of the volcano. Hopefully some of them will see the inside of their aircraft today.

    On the de-icing front, I remember what a ball ache it was spraying all the VC10s in the stupid o’clock hours of the morning. I’d rather clear 50 driveways than one passenger aircraft. 🙂

  2. High tech maintenance in my time, (in Germany, in the winter,) – a bucket of anti-freeze next to the gate sentry. If it started to freeze, we had to turn out and start our tanks, then stag on by turns keeping them ticking over through the night. (Chieftains Mark 1 and 2 – crap Leyland engines instead of the RR jobbies that had been called for in the design specs.)

  4. Ferret, since your days, I believe they have “drive-in” de-icers, at an unnamed airfield nearby shortly to close – but God forbid I should reveal state secrets. Maybe BAA should put in a bid for them 🙂

    I remember arriving in mid-Dec 1977, from a balmy 24C in Abu Dhabi, to Seoul, where it has been recorded as low as -24C! Apparently it was not unknown for sentries to freeze to death on duty…

    Heathrow resembles some third world nightmare of a travel hub, and like you, I feel sorry for anyone having to ever travel through it, even when it is operating at (its) peak efficiency.

  5. CWJ, your pic says it all – the root cause was the arrival of decimalisation and Elf and Softy.

  6. There are very few things best described in centimetres; we had ordered a bed to be made in Korea for our home there – when it arrived it took up most of the room – as you’d imagine when something was 2.5 times the size you you had ordered – still not entirely clear how they managed that, but clearly there was a conversion issue!

  8. Ferret – they also have a drive-in plane wash for the unnamed large aircraft based there [:-)] – rather diappointed to find our little aircraft was not allowed a shot at it!

  9. OMG! The Blizzard Bomb Bays have opened again – another ploughing session to the road if I am to make Inverness station and the airport to collect assorted adult children…

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