We had a flying day yesterday (Dec 10) in North Flanders. It was the scariest mission I have ever flown, due to the weather.



Predawn, dark, heavy snow, could see almost nothing. Lost sight of my mates with a few seconds of takeoff, and could see the ground only occasionally. Had to keep my orientation by looking at clouds and the moon. Crazy!

Fortunately the sun slowly came up and I did actually get to the mission objective (arty spotting) and back home.

On this mission, I definitely feel like I earned the extra points-multiplier the 'A' group get. Autopilot and/or labels would have taken much of the danger out of the mission, but also much of the fun (err, terror?).