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Old 11th Feb 2002, 23:53
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RatherBeFlying
 
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The lady did wonderfully!

Getting dumped in a dark cockpit of a complex piston twin, keeping it out of the drink (JFK jr. had a whole bunch more hours and was flying in his own plane) and then having the smarts to go to a familiar airport and make a survivable landing is quite a feat for somebody coming straight out of a 152, especially if all her experience had been day VFR. Maybe she had done a bit of the instrument and night work which would really come in handy in this situation.

I remember my own comm failure at night where I was tuning the radio and making calls without hearing anybody until the flashlight showed me the on/off switch <img src="rolleyes.gif" border="0">
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