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Old 21st Feb 2011, 10:57
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Well Done TTH!!

This reminds me of an incident in the colonies many moons ago.

Lofty M******l, the late Pete Pressley and yours truly were coming back from a casevac to Lantau Island, off Hong Kong, one dark foggy night in late 1967 and were caught out by the bad viz.

Up to 4500 feet in a Whirlwind 10 and Lofty calls for a GCA. In response to: "what is your forward speed", news that it was 90 knots, brought an audible exclamation from the controller. However, as we were using the SAR callsign of "Pedro 99" there could be no argument that we - as our US Navy friends might say - 'had the ball'. An approach was then completed but the Kai Tak stack that night was getting pretty high and at least one guy pushed off to Manila 'cause he couldn't wait!

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