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Old 6th Mar 2004, 23:47
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tyro
 
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I thought I was the only one. My most dangerous cock-ups to date were all in the first few hours of solo consolidation. Here's a few:

Dead-cut instead of throttle back at top of a climb.

12 o'clock meeting with a tornado, having misunderstood "a not above 1500'" MATZ clearance.

A very scary recovery from a PFL onto a field that looked attractively uphill. Might have been great for an actual landing, but seemed to be almost impossibly steep to climb away from.

A perfect rejoin downwind for 27 LH. It was only when I was about to call downwind that I realised my mental picture was in fact reversed and I was downwind for 09 RH. Fortunately there was no other traffic in the circuit at the time.
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