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Forum: African Aviation
27th Jul 2011, 11:28
Replies: 864
Views: 1,087,213
Posted By chuks

Do I miss it yet?

We had a paper load sheet and an FMS. With children, half the weight of an adult, you could calculate 5 children on paper as 2.5 adults, but what of the FMS, since it only took whole numbers?

I...
Forum: African Aviation
26th Jul 2011, 17:16
Replies: 864
Views: 1,087,213
Posted By chuks

Body-bag and a shovel?!

I calls that looxury!
Forum: African Aviation
11th Jul 2011, 13:36
Replies: 864
Views: 1,087,213
Posted By chuks

One night in the bar...

The Australian next to me downed his pint of Satzenbrau in one go, looked off into the middle distance then turned to me and said, 'You know, it is a brave man who farts in West Africa.'

I could...
Forum: African Aviation
2nd Jun 2010, 11:24
Replies: 864
Views: 1,087,213
Posted By chuks

I had this German Training Captain and...

I had this German Training Captain and Experimental Test Pilot go a bit mental when I asked too many questions about this "Gao, Mali" place they were sending me, as if I didn't trust his pet German...
Forum: African Aviation
24th Aug 2009, 06:24
Replies: 864
Views: 1,087,213
Posted By chuks

The first thing to go...

Is the grammar. It is all downhill after that.

Ten years, huh? You need to get your knees brown!
Forum: African Aviation
13th Nov 2008, 07:31
Replies: 864
Views: 1,087,213
Posted By chuks

It is in the checklist under Emergency Evacuation

I had one in flight with a passenger. We got him a couple of airsick bags and told him to go play "Dambusters" down the back. What was that code word again...

Anyway it was "Mission accomplished!"...
Forum: African Aviation
11th Nov 2008, 07:54
Replies: 864
Views: 1,087,213
Posted By chuks

Ah, yesss....

At one point in time Lagos ATC had one radio with a bad transmitter and another radio with a bad receiver.

You would get a call you couldn't read so that you would say, "You are 2 by 2, please...
Forum: African Aviation
10th Nov 2008, 21:16
Replies: 864
Views: 1,087,213
Posted By chuks

Wimps...

We landed at Hassi no probs today! Must be down to better equipment (a Twotter), superior pilot ability (skygod, me) or perhaps just the luck of the draw, coming in an hour after sunrise (before all...
Forum: African Aviation
10th Oct 2008, 17:07
Replies: 864
Views: 1,087,213
Posted By chuks

True...

I will look that thing up and tell you all exactly which type it was but, yes, there was a Russian twin-engine bomber just sat out in the weeds near GA parking.

One of the local madmen, callsign...
Forum: African Aviation
17th Jul 2008, 17:55
Replies: 864
Views: 1,087,213
Posted By chuks

Security...

I was sat in the cockpit of my Twin Otter filling out some paperwork or else trying to think up some brilliant scheme that would get me out of Nigeria when I felt the airplane shift a bit as someone...
Forum: African Aviation
16th Jul 2008, 08:50
Replies: 864
Views: 1,087,213
Posted By chuks

I have been touched as well...

Had the First Lady hurl down the back of my Cessna 402C. Had a big, fat argument with two of the First Sons when I didn't want to land at Minna Airstrip in the dark, just because there were no runway...
Forum: African Aviation
13th Jul 2008, 07:15
Replies: 864
Views: 1,087,213
Posted By chuks

A real prince...

I had one for a co-pilot on a Cessna 441, flown for a German construction company.

We had a trip for the German Ambassador to Nigeria one afternoon, taking him from Abuja to Lagos.

My Prince...
Forum: African Aviation
12th Jul 2008, 08:55
Replies: 864
Views: 1,087,213
Posted By chuks

Ah-ah!

Dat be "cow-meat". Not steak! A real work-out for the jaw muscles.

Then there is the famous Sokoto chicken. Not to say they are tough, just that I saw one get run over by a lorry and then get up...
Forum: African Aviation
9th Jul 2008, 17:16
Replies: 864
Views: 1,087,213
Posted By chuks

Evaporation...

We had an old Cessna 402 that was doing sterling duty as a sunshade for stray dogs. Like attracts like? Anyway some mad Eyeties decided they really needed it so a deal was done and our very best and...
Forum: African Aviation
8th Jul 2008, 13:11
Replies: 864
Views: 1,087,213
Posted By chuks

It is still Africa...

Just this morning we rocked up at the appointed time on the ramp at DAUH. No shuttle bus in sight and the temperature already heading past 40° at 8:30 a.m.

We show up every day at the same time,...
Forum: African Aviation
4th Jul 2008, 07:35
Replies: 864
Views: 1,087,213
Posted By chuks

Got us there, yes...

Whatever next, white crooks co-operating with black crooks!

Most of us posting here, I think, are low-level guys. Not that we are pillars of virtue, just that we do not usually have the chance to...
Forum: African Aviation
4th Jul 2008, 05:07
Replies: 864
Views: 1,087,213
Posted By chuks

Which came first?

It is a fair point to raise, whether the expats contribute to the mess that can be African aviation or whether they are partially responsible. I think you need to spend some time there first before...
Forum: African Aviation
2nd Jul 2008, 10:11
Replies: 864
Views: 1,087,213
Posted By chuks

Disobedience!

One day we got something like 37234 as the squawk, when one of those "Do what I tell you to do because dis be my country" discussions ensued for a short while.

Another time we got something like...
Forum: African Aviation
1st Jul 2008, 21:17
Replies: 864
Views: 1,087,213
Posted By chuks

African ATC!

I was going into Sokoto, Nigeria one afternoon, the only airplane within 100 miles, I think.

I had called within range and passed my estimates. Then I called again ten miles out and again on short...
Forum: African Aviation
28th Jun 2008, 13:35
Replies: 864
Views: 1,087,213
Posted By chuks

Justice...

We used to operate a late flight from Warri Air Strip to Lagos which departed at the same time as another operator's, both of us using Twin Otters. It was a matter of whoever got going first, when...
Forum: African Aviation
26th Jun 2008, 19:15
Replies: 864
Views: 1,087,213
Posted By chuks

Hmm...

So we can mark you down as "one not quite so in love with the Dark Continent," I assume?

Nothing quite as bad happens in Geneva, I suppose. Or is it that nothing much happens in Geneva? Or are...
Forum: African Aviation
26th Jun 2008, 10:42
Replies: 864
Views: 1,087,213
Posted By chuks

Say your position?

There was a guy coming into Port Harcourt, Nigeria in an HS-125 who kept giving different distances each time he was asked. "50 D.M.E."

"Say again your distance?"

"48 D.M.E."

"Confirm 48...
Forum: African Aviation
25th Jun 2008, 13:06
Replies: 864
Views: 1,087,213
Posted By chuks

Africa!

I went somewhere or other in Nigeria, Bauchi I think, when I noticed signs of life around the sometimes tower (a parked car there) but replies to my calls got I none, so that I was getting a little...
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