For BIK 118.60's benefit, I quote from a posted bulletin above as follows: [quote]... Provincetown's unmanned airport, where she had received some flight training in the past<hr></blockquote>This may go some way toward explaining her ability to find, and to use, the airfield in question. And, for those who wish to label me as a "doubting Thomas", I say that I doubt not a single part of the event as reported, only the news reports and posts upon here which carry the inference that the lady is, by her timely and assertive action, "a hero".
I guess it's a matter of ones definition of a hero, and my own goes a little further than the scenario as stated in this case. Surely no-one here, especially those from 'the land of the free', would wish to deprive me of my right to an opinion in the matter, would they?
And for DD, my flying experience at 50 hours is far from unusual, and that was the point in my stating it. Nothing more. Again I say, lighten up.
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Finally, and to toss just a little more fuel on the fire, let's not overlook the fact that many UK pilots get to sit in the co-pilot seat of passenger airliners as fully fledged First Officers with a little over 200 hours of prior "flying training". Heroes one and all, then! <img src="rolleyes.gif" border="0">
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