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Old 22nd December 2002 | 08:18
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Ascend Charlie
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The tinny feel of the 44 is what loses me - the piddly doors, the single-thickness-feel of all the metalwork, inability to carry any solid or pointy object that you wouldn't like to have rammed up your fundamental orifice.
I was having a backseat ride with 2 other pilots and the salesman as part of a sales demo. The pilot next to me wanted to shift his backside in the seat, and grabbed the metal bar across the back of the front seats to do so. As he pulled on this bar, it seemed that the front seats got closer to each other and the walls and roof bowed in a bit. The bar came back far more than either of us expected.
We didn't buy one, and stayed with the 206 fleet.
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