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Old 4th Mar 2017, 22:30
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twothree
 
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Another one!
Same F4 type and have visited an airfield in the Lincolnshire area from the base at Leuchars.
On the way home as the weather is perfect, I decide to pop down into the Vale of York, just to show the backseater where I, along with hundred other students in training used to get airborne on a day like this for our solo exercise in JPs out of Leeming, Linton-on Ouse, Topcliffe etc. AND this day, there were lots of JPs being thrown around the sky, all within a very small area, and I realised that if they were like me and my fellow students in those days, we very rarely saw another aircraft when airborne doing our thing. And so, having avoided about 3 of them who I am sure didn't even see me, I decided to go vertical and depart, before I was a witness to a collision between a couple of makey-learners and/or myself and had to fill out some paperwork. Frightening to realise some 8 years previous how little we had appreciated what was happening around us.
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