Bringing back the Count is not an option sadly. Mobile phones have replaced hand held radioes and they are much easier to aim so the potential for a law suit against Bristow in the event someone scored a hit on the Count is too great.
Being an American yourself I'm sure you understand the ramifications. Mogadishu was a long time ago. That was the British stiff upper lip and get on with it company. Now it's the Target Zero (apparently known as Ground Zero in Eket) and COBI Bristow; no comparison.
So people will start to move on to greener pastures (plenty of them and more appearing weekly) and the Count will continue to run a happy contented operation in Mauritania.
Perhaps we should have a Whip Round for the retirement party.....shouldn't take much to cater for the tumultous crowd that will attend. (However I bet a few pints get raised at the news of his leaving!)
I do hope someone tells him of how Girth snookered him in Somalia.....ol' Girth went from being put on the rail as the c nt was preparing the tar and feathers to being a made man that could do no wrong.
Seems Girth (knowing the c nt was reading private mail) sent himself a nice formal looking letter on BHL Letterhead which indicated Mike N wanted Girth to privately report on a continuing basis how things were going there.
Tyreburst fell over himself looking after Girth from that day on.
That was a secret Girth carried to his grave.....save a few of us he knew would appreciate the beauty of what he did.
ADA and Aerogulf are now paying pilots and engineers more then BHNL or CHC/ACN. 8/4 or 6/6 roster and Aerogulf provide a free sole use apartment in Dubai on a back to back basis.
Won't be long............ anyone want to buy a brand new second hand generator ?? Genuine Tokunbo item
Keep your generator NEO! Not sure where you are getting your information Sherlock. ADA, Aerogulf and many other Gulf Operators ..... do not pay any better than Bristow or CHC. They are still about 25% behind in salary alone. On top of that, they do not provide any benefits such as medical/dental, pension plan, loss of license insurance, disability insurance, per diem and so on. The Dirham is tied to the USD which has lost about 40% + in less than 2 years. Inflation is running at 11%(officially) but realistically more like 20%. Everything is very expensive and salaries do not keep up with inflation. The UAE is experiencing an exodus of expats to the point were the government is extremely concerned. When the Indian expat is returning home because they are getting more money back in India.....tells the whole story doesn't it!!!!. On a 6/6 rotation you will spend about $2,000+ a month just for expenses. Do the math Einstein....now go buy some gas for your generator!
Ah, the downfall of many a secret agent; bad intel. I was told about the pay by three pilots who have either returned there or gone to see what it's like. In that case I guess prison life is still more lucrative. Thanks Rayban.
Why do people leave Nigeria to go to the ME if the package is less ? Quality of life perhaps ? My cell is quite comfy, the warders aren't too strict with us lifers. Just got to watch your back for the smiling knives, but that's prison life I suppose...........
I was exploring a chance of scenery when reality intervened in the form of U.S. dollars.
Last time around the British pound made up the golden handcuffs. This time it is the euro, so much stronger than the dollar that it just isn't funny. It is as if Someone is playing a big joke but at least Mother Africa is keeping me fast to her sandy bosom with cold, hard cash!
Neo, you are just an inmate? I wouldn't want to call you a warder but perhaps you are at least a trusty by now, hmm?
No such thing as trust anymore. Maybe like many a lifer my past means I cannot be left unsupervised in case I relapse ? Or more likely the new way is to micro manage every single thing to make sure nobody steals the staples, Sellotape or God Forbid bad thing, the A4 copier paper.........
Forget about Shawshank or Cool Hand, think about Sergeant Schultz in Hogan's Heroes (for those old enough to remember)
chuks, how bad Africa looks would depend on where you are don't you think ?
You want Sellotape? I must have a roll or two left from my career peak as Deputy (Acting) Chief Pilot Lagos Fixed-wing, "borrowed", and that right from under the nose of Guess-Who. Hah! (I used to have to itemise how many bog rolls and light bulbs we got through each week, if memory serves.)
My fave memory of that time was Godwin C. Jonah, Chief Executive of Goddymore Enterprises PLC LTD appearing in my office one week to get naira for a case of Peak milk. I crossed his greasy palm with silver and off he went, leaving a thin trail of slime.
Next week he was back with a tale of woe. One of "de big ogahs" was very, very angry and this was MY fault. Yes, "de big ogah" had been given a cup of Nescafé with powdered milk, not deluxe Peak milk so that he "shouted" poor Godwin. Now Godwin needed more naira for Peak milk, a detail I had overlooked.
"But, wait a minute... didn't you just get money last week for a case of Peak milk? How could you use up a whole case of milk in just one week?"
"Ah! No, sah! De Peak milk be fo' US! De powdah milk be fo' de passenjah!"
"Godwin, if you are so thick that you don't know to give your "ogahs" Peak milk then I really cannot help you! Give them Peak milk or else! Now get out of my office! Go, and never return until you run out of Peak milk!"
Slither, slither, off he went... Peace was restored as I began to understand just why this fellow upstairs was so insistent upon knowing each detail.
Staples, well, you obviously never figured out that you took them out of the various Company hand-outs, hammered them straight and stuck them together for re-use. Weren't you told to do that? How strange...
I don't know about "The Shawshank Redemption" at all. If I had to put him in some movie role I guess I would have NEO down for "Dog Boy" from "Cool Hand Luke", just for how I remember him with his "Bell 419".
How about Arthur Daley? I cannot remember the show he was in but I think that is a bit closer, even. Would you buy a used generator from this man?
You know the way I met one of my managers there in Lagos? I reached in my pocket for my wallet and found we were shaking hands... That was Pan African, though.
You might want to re-think that "Pope" business, since there were some distinctly dodgy ones, including some from the Borgia family. You may have made a Freudian slip there.
There is no way, really, that most of what goes on in Nigeria could ever be put on TV. Well, maybe Jerry Springer...
When is your book coming out? I need to reserve a copy.
I was told about the pay by three pilots who have either returned there or gone to see what it's like. In that case I guess prison life is still more lucrative. Thanks Rayban.
Or more likely the new way is to micro manage every single thing to make sure nobody steals the staples, Sellotape or God Forbid bad thing, the A4 copier paper......... 
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Yes am interested in agbami and please would u know what level the facility has reached iin construction?
What is the name of this forum again ?? 
As if Darrel's Hotel wasn't enough......
we've done it before and we'll do it again n again.
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