Beagle
Will relate two ! I was right seating another pilot in a Senca twin! We were solid IMC trying to do a cloud brake me eyes down in a map looking for obstructions!
Felt a high G pull on my stomach and looked up to see the AH in the vertical!
Screamed at the pilot who tried to roll us inverted to level the aircraft on instruments. Hit his hands off the controls and rolled it back the correct way also then recovering from a dive all IMC!
Ferrying aircraft back from India a Citation this time and had permission to land at a military base mid Saudi Arabia!
Wind was 45 degrees off the runway 2000 metres in dust and 20kts !
Last fifty feet the palm trees doubled over winds increased to 50 kts!
Touched down and in seconds viz dropped to 100 metres in the roll out!
Sky bright orange and could see sand streaming through the engines.
We had to stop on the runway as vis too bad to taxi in a sandstorm and I did not want to ingest even more sand through the engines than in the roll out.
A guy clothed in white with his face covered came out of the gloom!
We got out of the aircraft to blinding stinging sand so dense you could hardly breath.
Pace
Last edited by Pace; 28th Feb 2013 at 08:10.