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Old April 9th 09, 09:10 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Bruce Hoult
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Default Winch Signals

On Apr 10, 3:51*am, JS wrote:
What was the film about skydiving where someone had a load of laundry
instead of a chute, their friend found out, and wrote NO GO on the
ground, but read upside down it looked like GO ON????


A story circulated in NZ around the time of the Mt Erebus crash that
the phrase "take off power please" had opposite meanings in the DC10
manual/procedures than it did in the Boeing 737's Air NZ operated.