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Old 24th Feb 2008, 18:01
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Downwind.Maddl-Land
 
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Her Majesty's Open Prison RAF Machrihanish

Please, Dear God, never let it open again!
Everyone who has posted here was never posted (as opposed to detached for short stint) there! Soul destroying place; 18 months, 2 weeks, 3 days, 8 hrs and 23 minutes of my life wasted at that @rsehole of a place. And 'Mull of Kintyre' was No 1 for most of that time too!!! I nearly lost my sanity (and my liver) there.

Two VFR movements a day - the Yogi Bear Trilander in the morning and the same in the afternoon. The kicker being the afternoon flight was invariably late so we had to keep the wretched place open late nearly every weekday. The only good time to be had was when the Buccs were working up for the first Red Flag and used it as a tech stop refulling base for 2 x QTRs a day from Laarbruch.
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