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Old 20th Mar 2006, 13:40
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ISTR a story told me by a civvy FI that he'd done 5 landings to qualify for a night rating on one pass of a long runway (could have been Stansted) back in in the 70s.

Maybe our VGS mates hadn't put enough turns in the rubber band before letting off the brakes
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