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Old 7th Sep 2010, 18:31
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Gertrude the Wombat
 
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Several months ago we went flying in the 206 at Lake Taupo.

First I had an hour's lesson, at the end of which I was doing landings without the instructor touching the controls. (OK, I cheated slightly - whilst I don't have a floatplane rating this wasn't my first time in one.)

The next day we put the family in the back and went for a tour round Mt Doom. (The temporary partial engine failure - apparently due to the instructor's knee pulling out the mixture control - upset some of my family slightly but didn't bother me, and we continued the planned flight once we'd sorted it.)

You can of course do this just as a normal flightseeing trip, but making it into a lesson got me to do all the flying and a log book signature. As it's a lesson there aren't any rules or hoops to jump through.
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