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Old 20th Sep 2010, 12:35
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maxrated
 
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Bullcom.

Thanks for your feedback, on a more serious note, could you elabourate on exactly what your mandate is from your financial backers as well as your budget.

Also , at what technical levels are you able to run with this, for example, could you finance and impliment SSR radar coverage over the entire continent or are we talking simply installing windsocks at mission station airfields in South Sudan?

To get any project like this going you would need to be backing a country or country's where there is a genuine political will and ability to appreciate what you are doing for them. The majority of african goverments will see your arrival in their country as an opportunity to pump up the amounts in their Swiss bank accounts.

In this regard I would suggest backing a country that has a progressive government which may be short of financial resources and technical ability.

Country's like Mocambique, Namibia, Zambia and Ghana come to mind where as putting your money into DRC Congo or Nigeria would be like pouring it into a bottomless pit.

Another criteria for your project is that it should be in a country that has a user friendly aviation culture. Some governments see aviation as nothing more than a sector which they can fleece by charging huge landing fees and overflight clearances while giving nothing back to the industry or infrastructures. These sort of country's are undeserving of your noble intentions.

Regards
Max.
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