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Old 1st July 2012 | 18:03
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Pace
 
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From: In the boot of my car!
Mad Jock

I ferried a beat up old Citation which was indian Registered and changed to N reg from New Delhi to the UK.
It was an awful aircraft! You didnt need sim training with that bird as you got it for real
Thing was it had an old Kingt 90B GPS. With a very late departure from New Delhi and a very green co pilot with me we departed at night and in a monsoon for Karatchi in Pakistan then routing to Dubai across Saudi to Alexandra,Malta Marseille UK.
Last minute I asked if the GPS had a worldwide database which I was assured it had but it had not.
Halfway up Saudi NOTHING. We had to load every single waypoint enroute by hand from lat Long all good for the soul as well as landing into a sandstorm in the middle of Saudi at a military base.
No moving maps flashing screens and pretty colours just hard work.

Pace

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