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Old 16th August 2013 | 07:44
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mary meagher
 
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What a magnificent set of runways! and used for spam can training....

An instruction to hold short of a runway that is forgotten, an instructor so busy that he forgets to do a proper lookout, an antique training aircraft that is so poorly fenestrated that most of the view is obscured by doorposts and instrument panels....

And the mindset that if you have ATC looking out for you and telling you what to do you can safely turn off your brain.....

How on earth do we manage at a plain old grass gliding club when the thermals quit and all the gliders come down more or less at the same time without running into each other on the ground????

The pilots are trained to LOOK OUT LOOK OUT LOOK OUT! The gliders are constructed to ensure excellent all round viz. And going around is not an option so you better get it right the first time....
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