It was easy. I quickly gave him a heading and made to fly us on
that course. He wouldn’t let go. “Give me a distance and ETA.” I ran my thumb along
the line “10 miles 6/7 minutes.” I go to take the plane, again.
“reconfirm for me please.”
Ah crap, am I suffering from the lack of math ability again? No my
thumb is 2.5 miles, 4 thumbs = 10 miles.
“10 miles heading 020,” I
reach for the plane, again.
“reconfirm.”
“Look that’s 030, so the diversion is around 020 and that’s 10
miles.” <gimme my goddamn plane> muttered under my breath.
“Your plane, recover”
Huh?
“What’s it doing WMAP?”
Holy crap , that’s some bank angle, ok sort that out; Ok woh! Don’t
remember seeing that needle go that high for a while. Yellow- not a
good colour
Ah damn! He put me in a spiral. I pause briefly to mutter “you
utter b@st@rd!” while pulling the power back – now!
Really though I’m more p!ssed at me. Should have spotted the ASI
before doing stuff with the wings. 3 stages to a spiral recovery. 1 power back,
2 level wings, 3 recover the dive.
Like a bad musician, I played all the right notes, just not
necessarily in the correct order!
Ok well another reflex gained. Recover = eyes instantly to ASI,
that’ll tell me what to do. Heading towards red = power back NOW.
Lesson learned the hard way, as usual.
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