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Old 9th Sep 2013, 22:34
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Al-bert
 
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Seems like something has been lost along with the adoption of exceedingly clever Ap's and no amount of Crab bashing can excuse poor flying skills on the part of NS pilots. I never flew commercially but thirty years of SH and SAR Wessex and Seaking was a damn sight more demanding than rigs and Sumburgh and yes, I've landed on rigs (and Sumburgh) by day and night in the ****tiest weather imaginable and in both hemisheres as well as numerous ships, some of which were never designed to be landed on and mountain tops that shouldn't have been landed on in the prevailing conditions! Come on guys, stop making excuses for wrong check lists, over complicated autopilots, checks and procedures. Learn to pole the bloody things and if company accountants don't agree sue or shoot the b@rds!
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