Interesting timing on this one, Beagler. I very recently managed to find a flight bag that would fit under the seat of an R22. I bought it in delight, and transferred everything from the old one. Apart from the usual stuff, I found I had:
Empty plastic water bottle that I obviously thought I might refill some day.
Crystalised ginger, left over from my early days of flying when I used to get airsick.
Ginger tablets - as above.
Woolly gloves
Toothbrush, toothpaste, and spare underwear - added the day after I got stranded overnight in Blackpool, in case it ever happened again.
More spare GPS batteries than anyone could ever need unless they were flying to Australia.
Oversized plastic paperclips - no idea why.
Two pocket torches
Plastic stopwatch that I never use
Bits of rubber tubing - I use them for attaching to R22 instrument knobs so that I can reach them when flying (but why do I carry six of them?)
Did I clear any of them out? Nah, they might be useful some day.
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Whirly
To fly is human, to hover, divine.
[This message has been edited by Whirlybird (edited 17 December 2000).]