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Old 21st January 2003 | 21:37
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Rumbo de Pista
 
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Always disconnect while your colleague is transmitting on the RTF, and as far from the airport as possible (Ideally about FL150). This gives other pilots the impression that someone is doing some real flying, for a change, instead of being so frightened by SESMA and its cousins that they won't touch the yoke! In the long term, this might help slow the rate at which our profession is devalued and deskilled, by reminding people that their little green books mean they are qualified to pole the thing around the sky.

'Pilot' n. a person who operates the flying controls of an aircraft
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