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Old 8th Jan 2013, 19:10
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Gertrude the Wombat
 
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at 120 hours someone gets on the radio and tells you what you should do...you won't question it.
I would have done.

"Question it" not as in "you're talking crap, I'm going to do something different" but as in "why are you suggesting this, why won't that work, what are the odds on such-and-such happening" and so on, until something I was happy with had been negotiated. It's the pilot's life at stake FFS, not the guy on the ground's; any pilot who doesn't understand that he has the last word in such circumstances has no business being sent solo.
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