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Old 29th Aug 2006, 01:23
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Dan Winterland
 
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Bedford I think.

In the days when the RAF had a readable, interesting and meaninful flight safety magazine called 'Air Clues', there was an "I learned about flying from that" article each month. I remeber the story of one pilot who had gone around from an approach at his home base and was diverting. En-route, he was passed to Bedford for a radar service and heard an aircraft in the circuit who had just rolled from an ILS and stated it's intentions to do a further.

Our hero thinks "Weather must be OK here, I'll land at Bedford" burns his boats and decides on changing his diversion to Bedford as he's very short on fuel. However, at DH - no lights! Goes around again and gets fed in for another approach while the other aircraft does another roller. Now he's very short of fuel and has to push the limits, getting the runway lights at a very low level on his next attempt. When he shuts down, the other mystery aircraft taxies past. It's a Varsity with 'Blind Landing Experimental Unit' written down the side.
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