Just a reminder about this man quitting the rally - dated 22 Nov on Facebook ( my Bold). Note all this was before he force landed in South Sudan: an event which was therefore unarguably beyond the control or responsibility of the VAR organisers.
Africa is a big boy's continent in which you play silly one man egotistical games at your peril.
UPDATE (22 Nov)
Vintage Air Rally participant Maurice Kirk, with his 1943 Piper Cub aeroplane, has not arrived at his expected destination, Gambella, Ethiopia.
Contrary to our advice to return to Khartoum, Mr. Kirk, 72, departed Ad-Damazin, Sudan at approximately 1400 local time (1100 GMT) on the +/- 3 hour flight to Gambella. No radio communications or satellite tracking were received at any time during the flight, and his location is unknown. Mr. Kirk is a very experienced pilot, and so it is believed that he has made a precautionary landing before sunset, somewhere in Ethiopia. The Ethiopian authorities, and his family, have been informed and search and rescue procedures will begin at first light.
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The VintageAirRally committee announces with regret that Maurice Kirk has had to withdraw from the Rally. This decision was taken due to a mismatch in expectations between the organisers and the participant.
We wish Maurice a safe return to Khartoum and onwards back home.
So, indeed, continually trying to retrospectively implicate the VAR organizers in this man's posturing over his self-inflicted situation is surely irrelevant to this thread.
Last edited by Haraka; 13th Dec 2016 at 10:42.