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Old 8th Jan 2015, 11:15
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Genghis the Engineer
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Yes.

I got caught in an unforecast descending cloudbase, reducing visibility, and commencing rain within a couple of miles of where this happened, around 10 years ago - in a permit aircraft.

I landed in a field, got a taxi home after apologising to the farmer, and later removed the aeroplane by road. I dropped one bolt de-rigging and lost it, which I had to replace at the cost of about £10.


Admittedly I had rather better short field capability than a Pioneer 400, but that option is available to all of us, and used far too rarely.

None of which should be taken as any assumption that I know what happened to this Pioneer.

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