Condor presume Mr Wu was North East, seem to remember visiting a strange cockpit on a trip to Newcastle where my parents had a few businesses?
Mate scraped the tail with a skipper who was comatose and didn’t follow his power commands (mental problems)..surprise the PNF doing the throttles actually lasted so long.
My instructor on the VC10 ..Mike Riley of Concorde/book/blog/paragliding/ aerobatics fame told us a story of jumping on a Trident during base training and flying three circuits doing auto throttle 1 and 3, auto throttle all 3 and manual throttle with his hands on the levers; showed that the procedures mainline had were rubbish especially as Mike is rather short in stature (he writes about his lack of altitude in his blog.).To be honest we didn’t believe him at the time…a BOAC pilot showing us BEA boys how to do it…naive moi.
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