We positioned at Nairobi to await the VIP party. I had some experience of MPs, civil servants and the like and many of them had a puffed up sense of their own importance. So it was a very pleasant surprise when Baroness Chalker and her team arrived. They were pleasant affable and understood the problems we faced with the a/c. They appreciated the effort that had been made to try to turn our rather secondhand 'Workules' into a VIP transport. The lady was very sensibly dressed as you will see and declined the offer of a Beverley seat in the cargo compartment. Instead she traveled on the flight deck for the whole trip.
One of the media lot insisted on sitting on a para seat underneath the Utility hydraulic system despite my telling him it was the worst possible place. This was the same chap who would insist on walking through the (stationary) props until one day he got too close to the exhaust of the GTC. Although he was not burned the shock seemed to instill a little common sense into him.
No doubt some of you may recognise some of the team here.
Off we went to Wajir to offload our small load of relief supplies and the minister could see how her department's money was being spent and talk to aid workers.
Take off from one of the strips.
Then it was back to Nairobi for a night stop.