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Old 22nd Nov 2015, 09:55
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Up Gently - both Cab le Cutter and I have flown with the pilot in the past and, whilst he was a good pair of hands, he had a mischevious and sometimes slightly barking view of what should and shouldn't be done in a helicopter (he was previously a plankie).

The unit he was previously with (plankie) don't have a fantastic reputation when it comes to flying discipline so part of it was learned behaviour.

He was a character but not a perfect one (after all who is?) and the HMS Glasgow incident is one a of a list of things that started out as a good idea (sort of) and wasn't fully thought through, especially concerning margins for safety when wazzing and zooming (if you don't leave a few feet spare for the 'wife and kids' you are going to end up as a statistic).

I wouldn't be too hard on Geebee - if you were asked to investigate a similar incident you would probably come to the same conclusions.
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