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Old 25th Jul 2017, 11:37
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Just This Once...
 
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It's hard not to pass-up the opportunity to criticise the tanker dudes but I am finding it impossible to ignore Typhoon #5's really bad day. Even if the chap was completely tumbleweed he would have remembered that his formation alone was rather large, short of fuel, arriving out-of-sequence and fighting for the illusive VMC. On top of this he had the tanker to join and departing aircraft to consider.

At the point he found himself back in IMC trail, with no SA, talking to nobody but a tanker crew, I just wonder if any of the hairs on the back of his neck were actually serviceable.
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