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Old 15th Oct 2018, 03:55
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Wilson is allegedly / at times / has been (not sure which) the busiest airport in Africa. I'm with double barrel on this one - ATC is shocking, aircraft seem to come and go on a whim, the airspace is crowded... training flights in 172s, semi-under-the-rader Dorniers racing back from Mog to reload with Khat, Air Kenya tourist Twotters outbound to Lamu, Police choppers (sometimes taking policemen's families on shopping trips), Kenya Cowboy bush jockeys in Raybans, shorts and rafters running into the circuit on fumes from the ranch in Laikipia ('well the truck with a drum didn't make it up to the farm, but I know this plane, there's always a few kilos in the tank if you waggle the wings on finals'), in a hurry to get to Talisman for a sundowner..... There are some fine training establishments there, but personally I wouldn't want to do my ab initio on that circuit.... Plus the whole damn shebang is at 6,000, so nothing seems to work quite as well as you'd expect.
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