Originally Posted by
reefrat
Back in the day half the bush pilots I flew with would invert the map when heading south, others could read the map properly north up.
North up man myself. Recall a walk, friend grabbed the map of me as deliberated at a footpath junction, turned it upside down and confidently led us off down the wrong path... I let him go a mile before pointing out his error.
Originally Posted by
ShyTorque
I heard a tale of a retrieve crew who drove many miles to fetch a glider only to find on arrival that the trailer contained a three piece suite.
Heard that story too, pretty sure it was at the Long Mynd and the saga involved several other happenings that were so contrived it must be true.