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Old 11th Jun 2009, 19:01
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In such a case it would be far more burdensome for the aircraft to be pushed back instead of letting the aircraft roll all around.
In much the same way that pilots of commercial aircraft prefer to do a reverse half Cuban eight to reverse course.

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