Finding the Airfield
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From: with bosun Blue Sky and the jenny haniver "Hot Stuff"
Yes, do this. Don't be shy!
You can't tell how you'll react when your mouth starts to dry out. When I got lost I forgot all about my lovely VOR and simply flew around in a flap until I gathered the courage to own up.
I even forgot about saying Pan Pan. My call was "I'm lost, can I have a radar vector please?" Asked not to go any further west, I thought fine,I'll pick a nice round heading to fly on... west.
My head was completely scrambled, I'm making all these basic errors, and d'you know where I was? I was half a mile and closing fat, dumb and happy to an active para zone with a jump in progress.
The lesson is this! If you're in a jam reach out right away. Better to burn bright red in the cockpit where no one can see than risk burning on the ground and all over the news!
You can't tell how you'll react when your mouth starts to dry out. When I got lost I forgot all about my lovely VOR and simply flew around in a flap until I gathered the courage to own up.
I even forgot about saying Pan Pan. My call was "I'm lost, can I have a radar vector please?" Asked not to go any further west, I thought fine,I'll pick a nice round heading to fly on... west.
My head was completely scrambled, I'm making all these basic errors, and d'you know where I was? I was half a mile and closing fat, dumb and happy to an active para zone with a jump in progress.
The lesson is this! If you're in a jam reach out right away. Better to burn bright red in the cockpit where no one can see than risk burning on the ground and all over the news!
Last edited by Capn Bug Smasher; 6th October 2015 at 14:15.
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From: The World
Unfortunately circling doesn't always provide anything valuable. Extensive green fields, minor roads and villages aren't much help.
