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Old 7th Aug 2013, 04:50
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dubbleyew eight
 
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no sir.

gees I'm going to have to make it easy enough that the poms can win.

try South Australia.

this little ALA saved my life one time. we had been flying in from Forrest and had drifted off course without knowing it. the resulting dog leg chewed up valuable time and set us at the destination airfield after dark. we found this ALA on the WAC chart and decided that that was where we were going.
in the impending dark I made a low pass over the strip turned very low over the town and set down on the SE strip. as we rolled to a stop the light vanished. it was like switching off a fluoro light. we couldnt see each other in the cockpit. the guy from the service station came out to check. his first words were "gees you're game this strip hasnt been used in 15 years. I dont think anyone has even maintained it for the last ten."
$30 each for a night in the pub was wonderful after the challenge.

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