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Old 1st July 2008 | 12:27
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shortstripper
 
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I'd say to pull a chute having successfully recovered to controlled flight was crazy!

Maybe not if you have just recovered from an unexplained black out and are not feeling 100% - what if it happened again on short final?....I see what you are saying though and had it been an inadvertent unusual attitude I'd have landed it.
Cor! talk about pick the bits out to make me look like a lummox! If you read the previous bit to what you quoted me you'll see that I did give the chap his due in the circumstances .... here's what I wrote again with the bit you ommited bold for clarity Given his circumstances fine ... but otherwise you'd be better off flying carefully and landing rather than pulling a chute.

Having a brain seizure must be very scary (even more so in flight) so I'm sure he did what his confused brain told him was correct at the time. If it hadn't been for that though, I'd say to pull a chute having successfully recovered to controlled flight was crazy!
As for the spinning bit, fair enough ... I hol up my hands in defeat on that score.

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