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Old 22nd November 2001 | 14:21
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NigelS
 
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There was another time when I did this. I started training at Shoreham and had a very experienced instructor who was very reassuring. Weather had set in while we were out and to get back he took the 180 radial to Seaford. Went outbound FROM for a few minutes then did a turn to west. We descended through thick cloud for what seemed like ages. He reassured me that we would only go to 300 feet and that the tallest thing we could hit would be a ships mast. We made a final turn to line up with 03 and popped out of the cloud at about 250. I remember being sooo impressed that the runway was just ahead of us and we were tracking the centreline.

Sorry, this is probably all just normal routing for most of you guys but I was very impressed by it. Strangely though it was not as scary as the episode I mentioned above. Probably because Shoreham control had given us info about who else was in the area, and were expecting us...

Nige
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