and an airline pilot. Its not always the inexperienced ones you have to watch out for!
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You have to watch those airline pilots. I took a highly experienced retired BA long haul captain for a flight in the Chippy. We were climbing out of Liverpool over the Mersey, him flying from the back; "They don't go up very well, these, do they?" he observed.
"They do if you use the rudder", I replied, applying a bootful of left rudder to move the ball off the left stop in its tube. It went up then!
"Ah. It's years since I've had to use rudder", he replied.
