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Old 6th Feb 2015, 19:35
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That is exactly why he put a main wheel in the dirt. On corners like that you have to take the nose wheel almost to the far edge before turning in.

A common but not really forgivable mistake.
I was being facetious, hence the .

In truth, I do believe that the nose gear ended up on the center line more by accident than design.

By the way, I used to have occasion to operate 727s on some very worrisome narrow taxiways on relatively small airports, some I sweated blood staying on a taxiway to avoid ending up as this G-IV did. A few times I had to send the FE out to guide me through some really tight turns.

That way if I did go off the taxiway, I had someone to blame it on.

Not really, still would have been my fault.
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