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Old 15th Nov 2013, 18:55
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longer ron
 
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Thanks ABL
Well I have checked my old logbook and 07 only appears once - Feb 1983 - 45mins with one of the nicest guys you could ever meet
In fact I specifically asked him if I could fly with him !
Because he knew I had done quite a lot of flying previously - he let me do the whole flight...start,taxy,take off etc ...I think I did the landing but it is too long ago to be 100% sure (I hope so and hope it was good...we did walk away from it !)
During the take off roll he was chuckling and said he would have guessed that I was an engineer because of my gentle handling of the throttle LOL

rgds LR

PS it was my last flight in a british military aircraft (while still in uniform )
and only a couple of weeks before I got promoted to 'mister'
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