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Old 20th Mar 2015, 22:32
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Gertrude the Wombat
 
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My most recent landing at Norwich was a weather diversion - a line of thunderstorms materialised out of thin air and were pushing me towards the North Sea.

First of all I called up Norwich to tell them I was being pushed into their airspace by weather. They said "fine" and told me what their radar said the storms were doing. After a couple more minutes I decided I wasn't going to outrun the line of storms and told them I was landing at Norwich. "Cleared for straight in approach."

The only interesting bit was after landing: "turn right and contine with the marshaller". I'd never seen a marshaller before and although I had of course memorised all the signals in order to pass the exam that had been many years before. Fortunately I managed to guess what all the waving around of bats meant.
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