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Old 22nd Nov 2003, 02:06
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Cutoff
 
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I agree with the currency thoughts. John Farley wrote a very interesting article about this very subject when he was a test pilot on the Harrier, he was deemed low time cos all his early flights in the harrier's early days were very very short, but in terms of currency and experience, he was right on top of it, his argument was that to be called low time is ok, but needs to be viewed alongside currency. I got caught out the other day flying IMC (simulated with a second pilot), I fully know what to do with respect to a Non precision NDB approach and yet when practising it after a long break I totally stuffed it up, my flying was good, but my procedure was pants...pure currency.
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