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Old 5th Nov 2018, 15:37
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Flying Bull
 
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I don‘t want really to blame the pilot.
Operational pressures will sure have their influence and I myself landed more than once with the stopwatch running and the according warnings on the panel ....
But I try hard to avoid to repeat the situation, which is sometimes hard, cause it seems the holes line up when fuel starts to go low...
Thats when ground forces don‘t respond to calls, you get clumsy groundforces, which mix up right/left and so on, while you sit there in a hover with view on the bad boy or the grandma, tangeled in a bush...
Still, I always have a big picture, fuel at take off and endurance at full power and I m prepared to do an outside landing / refueling, before an engine quits on fuelstarvation.
Decision making is what pilots get paid for and inquisitions for playing the game save - spoils the safety record at the end :-(
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