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Old 15th Feb 2003, 20:29
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Pilot Pete
 
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Back in my air taxi days one of the pilots (just after I had left) landed at a small military field about 5 nm shy of Derry and on the final approach track. Can't remember it's name, but the Jepp shows it on the approach plate and warns you about it! He had a couple of punters on board and the field was shut. When ATC asked his position as he had disappeared off their screens he reported that he had landed and they advised him that it may be better if he taxied back round and took off again pronto to re-establish himself on a 'short final' for Derry! Lord knows what he told the two punters! He didn't last much longer, in fact I think it was after he took off on another job out of Cumbernauld and sailed straight across Glasgow's control zone without speaking to anyone!

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