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Old 14th Oct 2002, 05:51
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Randy....would not practicing 180's be more beneficial.....really....doing a 360 to get out of trouble seems .....well....kind of ethnic somehow!

Plus.....I would like to know just how many hundreds if not thousands of hours I have at 200 feet in bad vis.....heck...I would like to know how many hours I have at 50 feet in bad vis......tree tops give a great altitude reference from below....and amazingly enough....most tree trunks point up....there by giving one an attitude reference. In our cowboy days it was not unheard of to ask the cabin attendent to slide the cabin door back and look down to warn us of the sea.
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