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Old 20th Jul 2020, 19:01
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Pilot DAR
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If I were in charge of that camera, and had somehow managed to succeed in that approach, and those landings, I'd sure be hiding the video!

That was certainly a [preventable] unplanned event, which would startle any pilot. It was not cause to rush to the ground, nor to fly a horribly poor approach. A fire, maybe, not that. When, in the past, I've have control problems, I have always first established that I have some, and enough control, then taken my time, and climbed higher as possible, to understand if the plane could be expected to fly differently - before I flew a strafing run and some landings in a compromised plane....
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