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Old 25th May 2005, 19:03
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BEagle
 
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My response was on the subject of visual lookout, PTG.

I was frankly appalled by the rank amateurism of the crew I was flying with; on departure from Patrick in flat calm conditions the a/c was bouncing around all over the place. When I saw a hotel go by through one of the cargo bay upper windows, I knew why. My colleague (on the flight deck for departure) told me afterwards that the crew had decided to 'say goodbye' to some girls in an hotel bar at 50ft along Cocoa Beach. The same girls who they'd taken flying illegally on an earlier occasion......

The behaviour of that particular bunch of cowboys went well beyond 'doing 31 mph in a 30' as you quaintly seem to consider it.
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