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Old 07-27-2015, 11:47 AM
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Old 07-27-2015, 04:55 PM
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It was like he was looking around to see if anyone had seen his faux pas before he got himself un-stuck
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Years ago I read an article about glassy water landings in seaplanes. The author opened the article with a very humorous description of witnessing a duck attempting one. The point was that if a duck can screw up a glassy water landing, so can a human.
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He needs recurrent training from an Instructor Bird...

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It was like he was looking around to see if anyone had seen his faux pas before he got himself un-stuck
In my younger days, I woke up in roughly the same position more than once.
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Originally Posted by FlyJSH View Post
In my younger days, I woke up in roughly the same position more than once.
Oh crap...where am I? What did I do? Who saw it?
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