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Old 12th Feb 2002, 23:02
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Whirlybird

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interested,

What exactly is your point? So, after 50 hours, you would have been qualified and able to land such an aircraft in such a situation. Well, if that's the case, good for you.

This young woman, however, wasn't qualified to do so. She hadn't had the advantage of having flown anything resembling the type of aircraft she had to take over, suddenly, with no instruction, at night, with pax, in stressful conditions. A pretty steep learning curve, I'd say. Any pilot knows that learning to fly a new type in such conditions would be difficult to say the least. Fast Jet Wannabe probably isn't the only one who'd find it terrifying - just the most honest.

My description of that would be heroism. If you call it something else, OK. Aren't we just arging semantics here?

Or, reading between the lines of your post, are you - just maybe - jealous?
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