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Old 11th Feb 2010, 14:40
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Sir Niall Dementia
 
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To me one of the most impressive pieces of flying ever was the Bristow Puma crew who got down after a lightning strike, when the whole TRGB pulled out of the tail. Astonishing handling and amazing CRM.

I've got a couple of thousand hours on the 332 and tried TR drive failures on every visit to the sim. IIRC I got the crash into a reasonably small area, but never managed what that Bristow crew did.

When TR drive failure happened to me I was probably led by the sim into thinking it couldn't be as bad as it actually was, admittedly the failure was on a different type, but I expected some similarities. BIG WRONG.
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