ZimBOBwe Instructors to teach SAAF pilots ..
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Yeah mate on the trusty rusty ruskies I have only better than normal comments 
The red brothers can build machines - yip but let's leave maintenance and " rebuilds" / serviceings to the imaginations
The red brothers can build machines - yip but let's leave maintenance and " rebuilds" / serviceings to the imaginations
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"But then again we are used to flying real machines"
Haha, thanks again Goffel, I love reading your posts, instant smile to my face. You havent even seen a real machine in your life before...no , the vibrator you ride is not a real machine!!!
Haha, thanks again Goffel, I love reading your posts, instant smile to my face. You havent even seen a real machine in your life before...no , the vibrator you ride is not a real machine!!!
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Zim to train SA pilots
News24: 17/11/2005
Zim to train SA pilots
Cape Town - Zimbabwean Air Force instructors are to be dispatched to South Africa to train local air force pilots under a memorandum of understanding signed between the two governments on Thursday.
Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils said: "This initiative, involving seconding Zimbabwe's flying instructors to train SA Air Force pilots, aircraft technicians and support staff, follows a long tradition of training exchanges between our countries."
These included joint military exercises, peacekeeping training, defence management training, staff course visits, communication training, sporting activities and aviation safety.
Defence, security
Kasrils was addressing cabinet ministers from Zimbabwe and SA during the first meeting of a joint permanent commission on defence and security between the two countries.
In his welcoming address, he congratulated Zimbabwe on "great achievements" during its 25 years of independence.
He said: "Very heavy congratulations to these notable achievements at a time when Zimbabwe is facing challenges."
Zimbabwe's national security minister Dydimus Mutasa said good relations between SA and Zimbabwe were vital for the stability of the region.
He said: "The future of the region depends on the good relationship of our two countries. If there is conflict between our two countries, there will be no stable future in this region."
Cape Town - Zimbabwean Air Force instructors are to be dispatched to South Africa to train local air force pilots under a memorandum of understanding signed between the two governments on Thursday.
Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils said: "This initiative, involving seconding Zimbabwe's flying instructors to train SA Air Force pilots, aircraft technicians and support staff, follows a long tradition of training exchanges between our countries."
These included joint military exercises, peacekeeping training, defence management training, staff course visits, communication training, sporting activities and aviation safety.
Defence, security
Kasrils was addressing cabinet ministers from Zimbabwe and SA during the first meeting of a joint permanent commission on defence and security between the two countries.
In his welcoming address, he congratulated Zimbabwe on "great achievements" during its 25 years of independence.
He said: "Very heavy congratulations to these notable achievements at a time when Zimbabwe is facing challenges."
Zimbabwe's national security minister Dydimus Mutasa said good relations between SA and Zimbabwe were vital for the stability of the region.
He said: "The future of the region depends on the good relationship of our two countries. If there is conflict between our two countries, there will be no stable future in this region."
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Well Zuma and the rest is actually taking care of themselves, hey Grommit? Eish, but now he's probably into "business"....
Importing from America, Israel, UK, no.......he's also, just like Nelson was (and Bob) looking - East. How can these monkies still have -ANY- following?
Said it before, ANC's address for long....during the "struggle" - was Zimboland.
Thanks to Grommit - we can now with his statements look forward to a rosy-coloured region. Methinks the millions of unsatisfied non-reflectives in the "region" will deal themself with the small amount of corrupt leaders - African style!
Show this to the masses and the "settlers" won't need to lift a finger. (Guess what, you guys actually proved you can't fly.)
They're already burning ANC posters!
Importing from America, Israel, UK, no.......he's also, just like Nelson was (and Bob) looking - East. How can these monkies still have -ANY- following?
Said it before, ANC's address for long....during the "struggle" - was Zimboland.
Thanks to Grommit - we can now with his statements look forward to a rosy-coloured region. Methinks the millions of unsatisfied non-reflectives in the "region" will deal themself with the small amount of corrupt leaders - African style!
Show this to the masses and the "settlers" won't need to lift a finger. (Guess what, you guys actually proved you can't fly.)
They're already burning ANC posters!
SAAF to use Zimb Flt Instructors!
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As a base and route instructor on Daks in EAA I experienced yet another truly exciting Kangaroo arrival at Mwanza from a Ungandan stude with connections and who long before should have been, but could not be failed.
The previous stops had been bad but this was a real Lulu and slightly unusual in the sheer volume of the clearly audible passengers screams in addition to the smashing crockery as we went from one side of the runway to the next in fifty foot bounds together frantic activity beside me on yoke and rudder pedals.
Having finally taken controll when it became evident that the finaly paralyzed student had given up the unequal struggle we taxiid in and came to a stop by the terminal.
Opening the window to get some fresh air I observed the long line of shaken and very stirred pax filing past the wing to terminal. One very smartly suited local individual spotted me and making his way round underneath the window looked up and remarked icely " The others were bad but Captain this last was a truly truly terrible and very dangerous landing!!"
My reply was very simply
"That sir is Nationalisation in progress!!" He looked puzzled for a moment, then frowned and walked away. The message had got through.
The addendum, some years later was that unfortunate then took out a bunch of passengers with him in a 707. He should never have been flying, for his own sake let alone others
The previous stops had been bad but this was a real Lulu and slightly unusual in the sheer volume of the clearly audible passengers screams in addition to the smashing crockery as we went from one side of the runway to the next in fifty foot bounds together frantic activity beside me on yoke and rudder pedals.
Having finally taken controll when it became evident that the finaly paralyzed student had given up the unequal struggle we taxiid in and came to a stop by the terminal.
Opening the window to get some fresh air I observed the long line of shaken and very stirred pax filing past the wing to terminal. One very smartly suited local individual spotted me and making his way round underneath the window looked up and remarked icely " The others were bad but Captain this last was a truly truly terrible and very dangerous landing!!"
My reply was very simply
"That sir is Nationalisation in progress!!" He looked puzzled for a moment, then frowned and walked away. The message had got through.
The addendum, some years later was that unfortunate then took out a bunch of passengers with him in a 707. He should never have been flying, for his own sake let alone others
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21 hours were once logged at FASK in those baby mig's. The pupil from the elite high school nearby for whom this hours are paid for, up to his toothbrush, accomodation and meals, was the cream of the crop then. A very promising student.
This amount of hours it took him to sort out taxing on a white line on the tarmac!
This amount of hours it took him to sort out taxing on a white line on the tarmac!
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DA pans Zim pilot instructors
21/11/2005
Cape Town - The Democratic Alliance party has urged the government not to use Zimbabwean flying instructors to train South African Air Force (SAAF) pilots.
The DA's Rafeek Shah said: "The proposal is severely flawed on a number of accounts."
He was questioning if Zimbabwean Air Force instructors had sufficient knowledge of, or experience with, SAAF aircraft.
He said: "For example, they have no experience of our most-basic trainer aircraft, the Astra Pilatus."
His concerns came after a military agreement signed last Thursday between Zimbabwe and South Africa under which Zimbabwean flying instructors would train SAAF pilots.
Controversial arms acquisition process
Shah said: "Given that there are not even enough trained South African personnel to train pilots on the forthcoming Hawks, it is highly unlikely the Zimbabweans will be able to offer training assistance on these aircraft, let alone the even-more-sophisticated Gripen fighter jets."
Paying for Zimbabweans' training
He said these fighters, part of the country's controversial arms acquisition process, had highly sophisticated avionics, "much more advanced than anything to which the Zimbabweans would have been exposed".
He said there was every chance that, as a result of this agreement, the SA taxpayer would have to pay for Zimbabwean pilots to be trained on the new jets in order to train SA cadets.
He said: "It is morally bankrupt for SA to recruit instructors from the Zimbabwean military, given their appalling human rights record.
"It is truly bizarre that instead of sending a clear message that human rights abuses will not be tolerated, we have instead chosen to enter even closer co-operation."
21/11/2005
Cape Town - The Democratic Alliance party has urged the government not to use Zimbabwean flying instructors to train South African Air Force (SAAF) pilots.
The DA's Rafeek Shah said: "The proposal is severely flawed on a number of accounts."
He was questioning if Zimbabwean Air Force instructors had sufficient knowledge of, or experience with, SAAF aircraft.
He said: "For example, they have no experience of our most-basic trainer aircraft, the Astra Pilatus."
His concerns came after a military agreement signed last Thursday between Zimbabwe and South Africa under which Zimbabwean flying instructors would train SAAF pilots.
Controversial arms acquisition process
Shah said: "Given that there are not even enough trained South African personnel to train pilots on the forthcoming Hawks, it is highly unlikely the Zimbabweans will be able to offer training assistance on these aircraft, let alone the even-more-sophisticated Gripen fighter jets."
Paying for Zimbabweans' training
He said these fighters, part of the country's controversial arms acquisition process, had highly sophisticated avionics, "much more advanced than anything to which the Zimbabweans would have been exposed".
He said there was every chance that, as a result of this agreement, the SA taxpayer would have to pay for Zimbabwean pilots to be trained on the new jets in order to train SA cadets.
He said: "It is morally bankrupt for SA to recruit instructors from the Zimbabwean military, given their appalling human rights record.
"It is truly bizarre that instead of sending a clear message that human rights abuses will not be tolerated, we have instead chosen to enter even closer co-operation."
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Of course this could be the plot of a great novel! The blurb on the novel cover could be:
" Small morally and financially bankrupt country uses a cunning plot to infiltrate a neighboring powerful and rich country's airforce with it's own pilots and then holds the county's government to ransom with a daring takeover of the county's new sophisticated fighter jets.
Will the plot succeed and allow the meglomaniac dictator to to assimilate the neighbour? Will this become a situation similar to the the Iraq invasion of Kuwait or will the West sit idly by as there is no oil interest?
A real page turner, the gripping plot becomes more daring as the novel proceeds!"
The Zimbobwe Herald
" Small morally and financially bankrupt country uses a cunning plot to infiltrate a neighboring powerful and rich country's airforce with it's own pilots and then holds the county's government to ransom with a daring takeover of the county's new sophisticated fighter jets.
Will the plot succeed and allow the meglomaniac dictator to to assimilate the neighbour? Will this become a situation similar to the the Iraq invasion of Kuwait or will the West sit idly by as there is no oil interest?
A real page turner, the gripping plot becomes more daring as the novel proceeds!"
The Zimbobwe Herald
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Ehhhhh He He well I broke and I fly and I expropriate How wonderful to see our Government so close to a dictator that rightsizes everything .... Ha but good news is that the ou manne can always take on the new SAAF with Microlights in a Gunfight and win
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Proud Old SAAF Boytjie
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Proud Old SAAF Boytjie
