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Old 12th Jul 2008, 15:23
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Gertrude the Wombat
 
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Oh, and of course you remember to add power during steep turns, didn't you?
Well, there was the time I was a passenger in a sightseeing flight over Glacier Bay and my film ran out. (Before the days of digital cameras.)

"No trouble," said the kid who was doing the flying as a summer holiday job, "I'll hang around here whilst you change the film".

He preceeded to orbit whilst I changed the film. As we were above the ice surface but below the tops of the rock walls this involved a somewhat steep turn. And to keep the turn tight, rather than increase power this kid decreased power quite significantly. "Yeah, well," he said when we were back on the ground, "you have to do that if you want to avoid colliding with the rock. I've had enough training that I won't stall it just by doing a steep orbit with the power off."
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