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rwanttaja
12-23-2019, 05:32 PM
Frederick Forsyth wrote "The Shepherd", about an RAF pilot caught atop a cloud layer with radio failure on Christmas Eve.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has an audio version (https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-the-shepherd-edition-2016-1.3907204?fbclid=IwAR08ZPZc9d-XNbJR-2JtZMK5Ne99lf2r39H7twS5hwMATR8dSxFRoVYx5hQ) of this available. Click the "Listen to the full episode" link.

Ron "And Have a Merry One, Yourself" Wanttaja

FlyingRon
12-24-2019, 09:43 AM
The instructor who did my instrument rating gave me a printed copy of this the night before my checkride and told me my only assignment was to read it. All of his students had left him notes in the flyleaves.

BusyLittleShop
12-24-2019, 01:34 PM
Right back at you Ron and Ron... Get your NOG on...

FlyingRon
12-24-2019, 02:34 PM
A copy of the CBC broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2_bLEqmBi0

A written copy exists here: https://www.cessna150152.com/ubbthreads/attachments/13553-Frederick_Forsyth_-_The_Shepherd.pdf

Bill Greenwood
12-25-2019, 06:32 AM
Is that the one with the all weather Mosquito? If so, great drama.