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Old 27th Oct 2019, 20:32
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Thracian
 
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Ned, as always a massive thank you for your annual calendar giveaway.

My most memorable flight was a simple transfer flight. But as a low time PPLer, getting a JetRanger under your pants is definitely worth a note.
As I got the chance to make this short transfer, I couldn't deny it. Except the startup of the engine, my FI let me do everything from take off (off from a soccer field on a german citie's outskirts) to touchdown some 50 minutes later, including one auto with power recovery somewhere in open country.
As I had to return to the departure location, a friend was waiting at the destination airfield with his Piper to take me back. And the 206 had to make a small hop over to it's hangar.
So in the end, I left the Bell with it's rotors running at flight idle (while the FI switched seats), took a snapshot of it in front of the sunset, ran over to the waiting Piper of my friend, and was flown back to the origin where we touched down just about end of daylight.

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