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Old 9th Nov 2007, 20:06
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heliski22
 
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We must assume that somebody on here knows who the pilot is and might encourage her not to give up, even at this stage. Heaven knows, there's a big enough shortage.

More importantly, there must be somebody who would take her under their wing to ensure appropriate steps are taken to re-establish proficiency in an orderly manner while also getting some work out of her - a balance between re-hab and gainful employment, so to speak, operating in controlled circumstances and away from, for the time being at least, the more demanding flight regime foisted upon her at the time of the incident.

As I noted earlier, possibly freezing on the controls notwithstanding, she didn't get into a complete flap about it and start over-controlling and all that good stuff but held on grimly to the end.

Given the ease with which this can happen in the absence of proper training, then does the evidence not suggest she has a goodly portion of "the right stuff" somewhere inside her?

If the "short flight afterwards" was carried out by the same people who sent her up there in the first place - under-trained and ill-prepared - it could hardly have been productive.
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