Yes Heather, unfortunately he was serious. He was a student pilot, no instrument rating, and got caught in a mass of cloud. Back at the flying school they were clustered around the radio, thinking we would never make it. But we climbed above the cloud... luckily it topped out at 10,000ft and wasn't one of the giants that would've seen us lose consciousness before we found the top.
There was a lot of shouting and gesticulating between the two in the front seats, in Spanish so I didn't get all the words, but there was no mistaking the meaning!
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Robyn
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Dave Smith
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What about this, your pay was due in the bank yesterday you are at the supermarket checkout with a huge trolley load of goodies for the weekend and the card reader says,
“INSUFFICIENT FUNDS.”
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“INSUFFICIENT FUNDS.”
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r.magnay
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Ah yes Stephen, I can see what you mean about the blacksmith and the toffee maker!..... 
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Hi Bob and Ross, it wasn't the flying that worried me, it was the prospect of its sudden cessation that bothered me...
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r.magnay
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Yeah Robyn, we got that, I think our bent sense of humour might have been wasted on you... 
You know...'F'....flying..........oh never mind!.... 
You know...'F'....flying..........oh never mind!.... Ross
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Yes I'd worked that out Ross, but had in mind the quote from Douglas Adams in one of his excellent Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy books... can't remember which one, something about the trick to flying being to avoid the ground... of course he said it in much more interesting language that I've used!
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r.magnay
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I am supposed to be out in the desert fixing stuff at the moment, we took off at 7.00am and got just past the space base....about fifteen minutes from the airport, when the pilot said, "Sorry to annoy you, but we have to go back, the alternator has shi....stopped working, and we are running out of battery power." Consequently I am home in the office!
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Hey Ross you weren’t flying a Toyota were you. 
Robyn, “and somewhere someone was having a cup of tea.”
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Robyn, “and somewhere someone was having a cup of tea.”
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r.magnay
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.. no Dave, we had no holes in the glow plugs, plenty of fuel in the tank and no dents in the fuselage!......
no Dave, we had no holes in the glow plugs, plenty of fuel in the tank and no dents in the fuselage!...... Ross
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Where is everybody? Christmas shopping? Christmas parties?