One of my best trips was as SLF in a C-46 meathauler out of La Paz, Bolivia. It had no seats, a bloodstained wooden floor, it reeked to high heaven and had holes bored in some of the cabin windows for ventilation.
A bunch of us gringos rented it for a 30-min. jolly around the foothills of the Andes. We took some of the meat workers for the ride as they had never actually flown in the thing. It occurred to us that thay might think that all flying was like this, even with Lloyd Aereo Boliviano!
No sterile cockpit here either. As we were keen to see our approach and landing at close quarters we managed to get eight souls into the large cockpit behind P1 and P2 on finals.
So unforgettable I repeated it a year or two later!
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Safety is no accident
[This message has been edited by EGAC (edited 10 October 2000).]