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Old 18th Aug 2001, 03:33
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UP2ZSKY
 
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A few years back I was helping ferry an Antonov AN-2 Colt on an 1800nm journey. We ran into some nasty weather. I said to the captain, Let me give you a little break on the dials. He gives me control thinking my many years of flying EFIS jets around IFR is going to give him a little rest. Ha! I took about 4 minutes to end up in a classic spiral! Oh yeah was I good!??! Ugh... YOU HAVE CONTROL!!
Upon delivery the customer looked at me and said " I hope you didn't try and fly the dials" He knew the difference on the attitude indicator. The captain had very little actual IFR time and was totally able to figure out how to read that backwards AI.
On we go....
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