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Old 16th Apr 2009, 01:24
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Pinky the pilot
Man Bilong Balus long PNG
 
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Looking forward to returning to Japan soon but in the meantime continuing the never ending search for a bad bottle of Red!
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The vans all have 2 Garman 430's and full autopilot which we fly single pilot.
Struth, you blokes are getting it easy!

All we had were beat-up Bongos, no navaids and certainly no autopilot!!

Neither of which would have been of much use in the twice weekly 'dawn patrol scramble' out to Kagi, Efogi, Bodinumu, Manari, Naoro etc etc!!

I never considered it hard work either. It was good fun!! Sometimes bloody terrifying, but still good fun.

And agree with observation about Meris and SP. Not to be mixed, even in my days there.
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