Realistically speaking you can get about 450 ft/min on floats in the glide, feathered and all. the do glide great, but that still puts him up at 11,000.
Maybe it was from when the light when on. so 21 mintues of glide, that's about 9,000. But I guess the reality is that it "seemed" like 26 minutes, whic could put him at any height!
Still why weren't the passengers told?
Woomera what happened to the long thread about this operator? I have looked into it further and alot of it was fact