.....the local fueler in Point Noire push the engineless leaking fuel truck with two half flat tires to the pipe connection beside your AC and proceed to refuel your over-wing tanks using a pistol grip that is held on by a hose clamp....eeesh, said hose clamp it is not strong enough and pops the hose, spraying A1 everywhere including all over the local who runs a funky chicken dance across the apron and dives head first into a stinking cesspool of some unknown vial brown goop that has leached from surrounding toilets & apron run off........he mates just reattach the same hose clip and round two begins
..................AC tires get stuck to melting apron due to A1 eating it away, Russians have their own single GPS point at 5nm from threshold and regulary use it for full IF approaches jumping in front of us as we conduct a full teardrop.
Awesome scenery, REAL flying, and fantastically strong Jack Daniels & Coke for sundowners at La Plage Sportif while taking a dip in the pool.
Flying cock roaches in the house which made the new FOs scream like little girls .......Captains just screamed for more beer !
Loved doing the spiral descents into interior of Angola when war was on to maintain MSA FL250 ( for S.A.Ms ) until within 10nm of strip and having a 727 literally dive bomb past us on the outside of the spiral to jump ahead
Not so much liking the climbs to 250 in spiral though
Thirteen 8 min sectors over 12 a hour day and operator asking if we can squeeze 6 more in ??
AC leaking a funny liquid on landing to find out it was Diesel which had come from the only 44 gallon drum we had aboard which at alt developed a hairline crack and filled up the belly of AC......
Lagos...BA 747 at 5nm cleared to land while our only female flight crew were cleared to line up and were now sitting on piano keys...FULL IMC conditions
Ya gotta love it......
