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Old 09-02-2008, 08:50 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Normann View Post
Maybe he was demonstrating that it was not possible and they pushed it too far.
The story goes that *someone* did one successfully on the duty runway and then requested to do the second one to the reciprocal - and winds seem to be a factor of course. There was later discussion from some **expert** that tried to identify a PROPER way to execute the teardrop and used 800' as a minimum but then again - it still seems that the risk is not worth the reward and statistics seem to prove that out.

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