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Old 10th Oct 2016, 16:35
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chuks
 
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One day in harmattan ....

I was headed into Warri with a helicopter pilot in the right seat of the Twotter, back when we were still happily single-pilot.

It was pretty dusty that day and I got it a bit wrong, being just a little too high when I finally saw the runway past the Chief's House.

As I was getting busy throwing that approach away I caught a look of utter disappointment from my passenger in the right-hand seat. He obviously had expected me to do some mysterious rotary-wing thing with my Twotter, flaring and pulling pitch and all that sort of stuff that you guys take for granted that should make it hover.

Once we got it on the ground I told him that it wasn't my fault. DeHavilland Canada had not fitted the thing with a collective, so that 60 knots was all I could manage on the low end, maybe a bit less in ground effect.
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