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Old 1st Jan 2017, 22:22
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Having spent some time in flying in Kenya I suspect MK may well find his bluff called by the KAA. They cannot be unaware of his shenanigans both outside their airspace and within it and any ferry flight of an aircraft in such a parlous state as his is likely to be examined fairly carefully. Lokichoggio is a seriously sensitive area as far as Military and National Security are concerned and arrivals from ther are likely to attract particular attention.
Loki to Wilson is a mere 500 miles. 500 miles of seriously unpleasant rocky desert, thornbush, rift valley and forested wilderness and all in severe turbulence once the sun is up - you might make it in a sound Cub in 2 days - just - but in one as battered as his I think you'd be utterly daft to even try. Even 2 flights of dawn to 1100 - by which time you'd need to be at FL090 or more to avoid the turbulence - is hardly a "ferry trip". He must stop somewhere to refuel and overnight (Lodwar, Eldoret, Nakuru or Nyeri are about the only choices unless he wants to crash somewhere else near a gas station) and not all of these - if any - have the supplies of Avgas he needs afaik - let alone engineering.
If the Kenyan authorities have seen the pics posted =above - and they have - of his wings, cowlings and that appalling fuel "transfer system" they may not be in a very welcoming mood.

But then, why should they?
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