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Old 16th Mar 2018, 14:29
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albatross
 
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Originally Posted by [email protected]
anything to do with the battle against drug smuggling........
I assume so
: we proceeded trouble free via Bahamas, Turks and Cacaos the Dominican Republic, St. Kitts and Nevis and St. Lucia happily filing paper IFR flight plans at the airports using paper manifests ect until we arrived in Tobago for refueling where, even though we were staying on the airside, they were much upset because we had not efiled a manifest.
By Happy coincidence a "Local Handling Agent" suddenly appeared and for a fee took care of the problem. LOL
We then proceeded via Georgetown BG, Cayenne French Guiana and onward to Brazil.
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