Sector: Aviation
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The Poltergeist Instructor
A recent challenging experience during a night-rating flight took me back to a spooky experience of my youth. It was in the 1990’s, at RAF Sealand, the base of the Air Cadets’ 631 Volunteer Gliding School. I was a teenage staff cadet, meaning that in exchange for tireless labour every weekend I would get a…
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Skydiving Special
GA1383 (Skydiving & Parachuting)Twists and Tangles – Longer version Report text: [Parachute was] deployed at 3,000ft, fully open at 2,432ft, line twist so decided kick and pull. Mistake no.1 – I did not look above line twist. Lines untwisted at 1,410ft and realised slider was snagged high up toward canopy. Mistake no.2 – should have…
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