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Old 16th May 2009, 08:06
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To pick up on Soddim's post. the thing that I cannot understand with this crew is that the most important lesson a pilot very rapidly learns in mil aviation is to look after yourself, something that is mostly missing in purely civvy trained pilots, unless they have been exposed to single-pilot commercial work. Operating single pilot in a fast machine teaches you that no-one else is going to wake you up, nudge you, shuffle uneasily in their seat or clear their throat when things go awry. With all the 'fast-jet' time supposedly claimed by this crew I am just amazed that there appeared to be no self-preservation instinct, and this is an interesting one for the shrinks.
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