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Old 13th Sep 2015, 16:58
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Remember a route many years ago when Hurricane Gilbert took out Jamaica, HJ was the captain. Our lords and masters did the honourable thing as we were revitined to take support and supplies to the island, and said "stay on the ground as long as necessary to make sure HJ's kinfolk were ok". Telephones were down, but he managed to find out everything was ok not long after landing, we being true gents of course stayed on the deck for the full 3 hours required to make lunch in Kingston. HJ was slightly concerned that we had to reverse out of the parking slot in case we did some damage, until it was pointed out to him there were Cessnas on the GA pan upside down in trees, plus the terminal area we were next to had no roof to windows. A lovely man to fly with.
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