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Old 11th Dec 2008, 07:26
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Whirlybird

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48 hours fixed wing, 30-ish rotary (wasn't counting precisely by then).

There you are, now I've really messed up all those averages for you!

I also hope that makes a welcome interlude in yet another thread which looks set to go something like this: "I went solo in 5 hours"..."well, I did it in 3 hours, and I had bad weather too, and a broken leg"..."I did it in 2 hours way back when we flew open cockpit taildraggers and were also getting shot at on downwind"... "I did it in 0.7689 hours"....etc, etc, etc.

'Solo oneupmanship', I think they call it. They do now anyway.
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