Ah, patience & Africa... yup, got it in one. Go there and start shouting the odds, "this is unacceptable" etc, they'll just turn around and walk off. And then you're screwed and then be invited for tea without biscuits... "so... what was the 36 hour delay all about....?"
Need a certain attitude over there, gotta pretend to be cooler than them and care even less than them; whatever happens, smile and shrug your shoulders... otherwise you're finished. Not just this turnaround, but the next and the next and the next...
Once they've decided that CR2 is a
, CR2 is finished.
Once they decided that CR2 is
, well, the impossible becomes possible...
A lesson to the youngsters, offered free of charge by me. By doing it the wrong way first. Then again, at 21 you know it all better
... LOL
PS: ADD was my very first trip as L/M, had a minder with me :-) Special flight too; an ex L/M was flying left seat with the Chief Pilot RHS.... His last sector prior to getting his 4th stripe. We continued to NBO that day... well, what a party afterwards