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Old 12th Dec 2003, 21:17
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Dave Gittins
 
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Safety Pilot

As a numble PPL I always ask for a "safety pilot" when I hire a plane someplace I ain't been before (or haven't been recently). The intention being that I get somebody to sit in the RHS while I exercise the priveleges of P1 under JAR who knows the local procedures, landmarks, VRPs etc. and speaks the local language.

I normally fly from Fairoaks so I am talking about when I go to Tenerife or Crete or somesuch.

In the strict sense I don't really mean a safety pilot, from the medical or practise IFR point of view, just a "local pilot" but we all know what we mean when we use the term and the plan is to keep me safe.
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