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Old 1st November 2002 | 11:09
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BDiONU
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From the poster formerly known as Take3Call5

Not all pilots appear to know what a rate 1 turn is. I have in my hot sticky mitt a letter of approbation from CAA's Safety Regulation Group from an incident I handled on 11th August 1994 where the pilot had not the faintest idea about No Compass No Gyro nor rate 1 turns!
This person had 'made a gross error in synchronising his direction indicator with the magentic compass which resulted in approximately 50 deg of track deviation'. Had taken off from Belfast Harbour and thought he was South of IOM, but I found him (using 7700) North of IOM, in fact flying along the coast of Wigtonshire. When told to turn he done about 180 deg in 2 radar sweeps! Eeekk!
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