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Old 6th Jul 2002, 12:39
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BEagle
 
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Ah yes - in those days at Y Fali we had to wear the awful acrilan pile buny suit, internal g-suit and heavy goon suit for virtually the whole year. Trying to apply full right aileron on a cross-wind take-off required you to push on the left hand side of the control column as you couldn't get full right in the normal manner because of the thickness of the goon suit clad thigh!

On my second solo, the red clangers went off half-way round a loop and I noted an 'OXY' caption. But all seemed OK, so I tried to get the FRCs out of my goon suit to confirm that there wasn't something I'd forgotten - that took about 2 minutes as there was about 1/2" clearance between the knee pad and fire extinguisher button.....

But we loved it really!
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