Nav Ex- the confessional!
There comes a time when one feels honour bound to admit ones mistakes and do the decent thing - apologise.
Yesterday, I was on a Nav - exercise routing Southampton, Blandford, Mere, Southampton and what an interesting little exercise this turned out to be!
Firstly I would like to apologise to the'Banana' lake on the approach to Blandford for thinking it had been filled in, couldn't see the thing at all, then my instructor calmly indicated that it was beneath us! A slight error in calculating the time to this feature didn't help.
Apologies to Compton Abbas A/G for confusion caused when I was doing my 'good airmanship' thing and called in to notify them that I was overhead their field on route to Mere. They came back with their QFE and "land at your discretion"!
And to the nice lady at Boscombe Zone, what can I say? When I said I was routing back to Southampton via Bishops Waltham I actually meant Romsey- sorry, the workload was getting to me by now.
Apologies to my instructor David, who reserved his wrath for the de-brief.
I promise I will do better next time.
(does anyone else have days like this?)
Last edited by Thumpango; 24th July 2003 at 21:16.