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Old 10th Apr 2020, 21:07
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weemonkey
 
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Originally Posted by Cat Techie
Pray tell me how does a novice know what his limits are? The person in question had thrown an oval ball to a bloke whom dropped kicked it between two posts and an upright in Sydney the autumn before. He was on a PR visit. He didn't know he was going to fly that day, because he didn't when we spoke to him the early morning he pitched up. (yes he had the med and seat/equipment training before as we all would as a cat B). Almost as daft a point as that civvy OAP met man makes.
Read the report. He didn't want to do the trip.

Ergo he knew his limits, but was shanghaied into it and left with 0 support.

And YES I have done "trips" and I wouldn't now.

It's a young mans game.
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