Redhill- Singapore in a Bell 212 circa 1980
I was engineer on a ferry flight from Redhill to Singapore at a time when we where moving aircraft out there. Also doing the same flights were Wolfgang Swann and Geoff Dentith.
Interesting if not an arse numbing two weeks (due to an AOG) and about 76 flying hours. Average leg was 5 hours with the ferry tanks - most unusual bit ...
Pasni in Pakistan - Fly once round the town for fuel or twice round the town if you required customs as well. All the fuel came in flimsies! Made the refuelling a long exercise.
Spent xmas day in Damascus and new years eve in Calcutta.
Worst moment following the road between Kasuma and Badana in Saudia Arabia - waking up and realising both the pilot and I had been asleep for 5 minutes - good old 212 still just chugging along at 90 knots at 3000' still following the road !!