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Old 1st November 2004 | 15:11
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Pat Malone
 
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From: Cornwall
As a low-hours pilot I twice "landed out" in fields when caught by weather.
I asked a 17,000-hour helicopter pilot who has worked everywhere from the North Sea to the Falklands how many times he had done the same, and he said "never."
He had always diverted to an alternate airfield.
With discipline like that you'll be fairly hard to kill, even in Scotland.
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