bang on rose in the weather that we live in no race controller can give the birds a perfect path as i said in an earlier post once they get a good start and a chance to cross the channel race controller has done a pity good job
only so much race controllers can do if its clear at the race point and they have a good chance to cross the water the bird has every chance other weather they meet on on the way is part of there job
when u have a race 500 mile or more the weather will be different as they cross the country
ive said this before and i was laughed at that small birds have cancer think about it if we only feed top grade peanuts to our pigeons peanuts for human consumption god only knows what grade they put into feed for small birds and as pigeon fanicers we all know how deadly peanuts can be