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23rd Mar 2005, 07:07

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Genghis the Engineer

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The surface winds you can get in the Hebrides, VTOL is not entirely impossible in a PA38, let alone a reasonably short field.

Happy to agree that it was unlikely to happen on a still day, but those are fairly rare in the Western Isles.

G