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Old 18th Dec 2006, 12:11
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Chimbu chuckles

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At POM the terrain means the wind blows from two direction...14 or 32...but taxiing was really hard even with the locking tailwheel...I was sorely tempted to eschew the runway all together and just land on the GA apron lined up with a parking spot...but figured Sooty in the tower was unlikely to cope at all adequately so never tried it...on previous occassions I had put on an impromptu aerobatic display low over the airport at Moresby in a C152 Aerobat belonging to the aeroclub and taxied a C185 all the way to the maintenance hangar 'tailwheel up' after landing with a known flat tailwheel (departed the bush strip the same way)...on both occassions after requesting 'clearance' from 'Da Tauwa'...on both occassions I received clearance but it was excrutiatingly obvious on both occassions they had no idea what they were saying yes to
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