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Old 11th Mar 2020, 00:06
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Below the Glidepath - not correcting
 
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One of our AAC pilots was tasked to fly a reporter for a monthly Defence rag around the Soltau Training Area in Northern Germany, the reporter was duly authorized Gazelle front left seat, duals out, so he could get some good pictures of the Armoured Divisional Exercise. Well, about 3 months later, when the article came out, there's the picture from the Gazelle cockpit, aircraft barrelling down a fire break with the ASI clearly showing 120 Knots and the RadAlt flickering at about 20 feet. That was long time ago but it seems the lesson about not capturing your misdemeanors on camera has not aged very well. The CO certainly had a view about the reputational damage!

P.S. The rule of thumb for low flying was height AGL in feet should never be lower than speed in Knots. Is that still used?
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