Crab.
All,rpt, all 139's grounded.
The Portland duty machine is actually the Lee aircraft G-CGIJ. Lee is still covered by the 61 until the 139 auto hover SAR modes are sorted out and Portland crews and engineers return from their respective courses and G-CGWB arrives. Confused?? I definitely am!
The one you saw yesterday is G-SARD, the Lee standby machine training the other Lee crews. (It wouldn't have run out of fuel to South Wales, it's the one with the overload tank!
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Got to agree though, not a good start! Things can only get better!
Dust off your Wey Bay maps, I can reccomend the Jet A1 at Portland if you need it.
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