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Old January 3rd 04, 04:45 AM
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"Gene Storey" wrote:

If there's not anything you can do about it off the ground, then you have two
options: bail out, and go in with the ship. Leave that crap out of the syllabus.


Damned right...that stuff's fun to win beers with in the hotel
bar but it's actually counterproductive in flight (fills yer
memory chips up with useless trivia)...although it appears that
the Air Transat guys could have (apparently) used a little more
of those tricks when they just happened to find themselves over
Lajes when they ran outta fuel!...
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-Gord.
 




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