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Old 15th Jun 2011, 13:17
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Years and years ago there used to be an annual golf session between Bristow Helicopters (Aberdeen) and British Petroleum (Exploration & Production). The deal was that a golf course would be selected and they would use one of BP's sole use S61s to fly there and back with the tab for the aircraft being picked up by BP.

The day came and two of the Bristow golfers who were training captains were going to crew the aircraft. For those unfamiliar with civil descriptions a training captain is a QHI and Categorisation Trapper rolled into one. The golf course selected was one in Perth, about 45 mins down the road and off they went.

Perth was under thick fog and eight/eight stratus; something that anybody who had bothered to get the TAFs would have known about.

They returned to Aberdeen and there was frantic activity whilst they telephoned golf courses in the opposite direction to arrange a booking. They did and again they loaded up and, having assessed that the weather was fine, zoomed off to a golf course in Nairn.

They found the course, found the clubhouse and in a great fog of grass cuttings arrived in the middle of the clubs Annual Championship Day.

Wrong golf course.
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