Chieftan? Aero Commander? C402? Try doing night freight in a C210!! Emb CBs seem just that much bigger when you've only got one donk...and one generator, one vac pump, one VHF nav/comm (original Cessna clunker box too). Wet season - scary, scary, scary. Dry season - scary. No radar, no GPS, not even a strikefinder.
Not 1976 either, but still going on in 2006! And all legal down to the letter.
....and all you can think about is those 23,000 or so hours that those wings have on them, after they've done the same things for about the last 25 years,
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Wet season, ohhh so much fun.... NOT. The ops manager still sat back in his chair in Alice though and continued to throw **** at you when you grounded the aircraft because the autopilot didn't work!
Thank god I'm sitting fat dumb and happy in Tasi now.
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