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Old 29th Dec 2018, 06:24
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Squawk7700
 
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I was near Cottage Point today heading north and witnessed a Beaver taking off. My god the climb rate is so low, be it due to normal performance or reduced power takeoffs! The terrain all starts to look the same from the lower levels and it comes as absolutely no surprise that the pilot may have kept going straight ahead by accident into Jerusalem Bay and not veered left back towards Cottage Point, particularly if you hadn’t done that maneuver a few times before. It’s all very deceiving and all the bays start to look the same.
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