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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: N. Phoenix AZ USA
Posts: 28,977
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile
I wonder how many pilots today can fly an NDB approach down to minimums without staining their shorts. Ahh, that was flying.  |
You have not lived until you have shot an NDB approach to a runway in Russia at night in a thunderstorm, flying the approach in solid IFR while converting meters to feet, hectopascals to inches and listening to the frigging nicotene stained Russian navigator in the jumpseat ***** and gripe the whole way down to the ground...
We just brought the bird back to CONUS and both of us smiled when we first heard an American voice on the radio approaching "feet dry" in point.... you guys flying over here have it very good.
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