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Old 20th March 2007 | 09:33
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Whirlybird

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From: Belper, Derbyshire, UK
It's not just LPL - it's everywhere! Hover-taxi along that yellow line, don't cut across the grass, and definitely don't just take off into wind and get out of everyone's way...I mean, it may be common sense, but....well, it's not done is it? It's not British! You'll never develop a stiff upper lip if you don't learn to follow yellow lines. Besides, the plank pilots might get jealous.

But I forgot. No, it's not everywhere. There are the airfields that have Special Helicopter Procedures. Descend to 700 ft at the farmhouse that looks just like all the others, follow a curving path over lots of VRPs that even the locals can't find, stop dead and hover over X-Ray...oh, that's the point hidden in the long grass between the two runways that we just forbade you to cross, sorry if we forgot to paint it in this year; we expect helicopter pilots to be psychic. And after we've left you hovering for ages while we make the tea, cross the runway immediately, and expedite!!! And then do the mother of all quickstops, and park on that H between the trees with the low branches and the badly parked microlight...what do you mean, you might blow him over; that's your problem, not ours.

Oh, and then drop into the tower please; we've had a complaint from a plank pilot about....your very existence.
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