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Old 28th Oct 2010, 17:24
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Genghis the Engineer
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I remember once just how boring landing a PA28 on the beach at Barra was, after a 50 mile sea crossing. I was absolutely bored silly as I tried to track straight through clouds of seawater spraying up, and hated every moment of it sitting stable on the way from there to Islay so all I could do was enjoy the unique and unparallelled view over the hebrides.

Did a similar trip a few years later in a Chipmunk with India-Mike (cheers old chap, I still owe you a trip!), that was dull too - barely enough height under a 3,000ft cloudbase to fly loops safely, and couldn't spin it that day - all we could do was fly between little Island airstrips with a few aerobatics in between. No idea why we stretched it out until just before dusk.

Come to think of it, pretty much all aeroplanes are boring - no idea why I bother.

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