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Old 22nd June 2008 | 19:37
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Upland Goose
 
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From: Always on the back of the drag curve.
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My sympathies to any "dolly" operators. When I operated a Twin Squirrel for a well known UK Retailer we commissioned a dolly to supplement the one man band operation.

My first landing, at night, (downwind Force 6) frightened me S*******S. I decided to couple up my Ford Sierra (1988 - what a year) to the 50mm ball (prime mover) to give me a forward reference.

I used to line up, the right roof gutter with the aerial and it was like shooting fish in a barrel.

It proves you cannot hover by reference to the chin bubble. Some years later I was trying to land G-OITN on the very same dolly. The one on which I had scores of landings. Without the Sierra, or equivalent, it was a nightmare all over again.

One famous dolly incident on the North Sea involved a Bell 212 G-BFER. It became known as "Echo Rollover" - it never flew straight after the rebuild!

Happy Days!

UG
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