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As Beagle seems to know “those in the know” perhaps you could ask him what new capability the HC2s had that could have been worth demonstrating/exercising a pin-point approach to a site with fixed local weather – then perhaps you could rethink who was on board and whether a demo of such a capability could be sold to them, especially as a training component was often included in such flights and it would not have changed their schedule.
Oh, and your confident statement “...this was a bus run; nothing more.” - why, when they already had a safe route for a bus run (Ald, wptH, wptB), did they cross the Antrim hills in marginal weather conditions and confidently approach the Mull so closely yet having the intention (as evidenced by the selection of wptB and a crs of 028 on the navigator's HoSI) of soon heading back to the safe track (partway along H to B)? This excursion couldn't have been for the scenery that day.
Last edited by walter kennedy; 4th Nov 2009 at 18:51.
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