The point being that in the time it takes a helo to crawl down a PAR against a 30 kt headwind, everything else in the visual pattern has been sent round many, many times.
... not necessarily oh Best Beloveds...
..... one recalls one occasion when CFS was at Leeming, a young Teeters taking a CFS(H) Gazelle there for some important reason - prolly a photo shoot with the REds or something equally
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Grobbly weather and in need of the tick (and finding Leeming!) one elected to fly a PAR. Was number 3 in the pattern. When a minijet joins, bored sounding controller says: "Roger c/s, I may have to orbit you, you are No 4 behind a (audible sigh) helicopter..."
Whereupon Teeters grows horns and accelerates to IPS, and stays there - for the uninitiated, this takes my slippery plastic chicken-leg down the slope at about 165kts .....
..... to be asked "Ahh ... Rotary c/s, please reduce speed - you're catching up the JP in front of you!"
Game set and match to CFS(H)!!
