You Know You Are In Africa When.....
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If it was not true you would not react this way would you?
.....and yes i am African....and yes African aviation is full of gorillas, if you dont experience that you must be flying in an other airspace then the rest of us? or you never did any flying outside of Africa, you should try it....its an eye opener. by the way my medical is fine just got a fresh one
.....and yes i am African....and yes African aviation is full of gorillas, if you dont experience that you must be flying in an other airspace then the rest of us? or you never did any flying outside of Africa, you should try it....its an eye opener. by the way my medical is fine just got a fresh one
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When you walk down the road with open manholes and raw sewage flowing out down the road, but there is a plank stuck in the manhole to warn approaching motorists and motorcyclists of the hole.
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When you are invited for....
African Bar-B-Q....then you see the African Bar-B-Q.....and pray that you will come up with an excuse good enough to leave before having to reach into the Bar-B-Q and actually eat it.
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You know you are in country...when...
You know you are in country when.... a fellow in a blue overall, skin as dark as the Ugandan night, a bright smile with ivory white teeth comes strolling over to your machine to change out the left hand brake unit... you go over to watch what this friendly chap is going to do..... he then proceeds to use a hammer and a flat head screwdriver to tap the nut of one of the retaining bolts!! 
You scream in horror and he stops... then he explains that he has no socket set to use... but you know that he had a socket set a few days before... so you enquire about the whereabouts of the socket set... and he explains very-a-matter-a-factly that he had to sell it to help himself...help himself?? You enquire again and he explains that he hasn't seen his wife for awhile.... so you surmize that he sold the socket set to go to the brothel.... then he smiles again and shows you those ivory white teeth!
Ahh.... I must be in the dark continent... the night is clear, the stars are out and you wonder if this is what the European night sky looked like before industrialization??
6to8........ I do miss it sometimes!
You scream in horror and he stops... then he explains that he has no socket set to use... but you know that he had a socket set a few days before... so you enquire about the whereabouts of the socket set... and he explains very-a-matter-a-factly that he had to sell it to help himself...help himself?? You enquire again and he explains that he hasn't seen his wife for awhile.... so you surmize that he sold the socket set to go to the brothel.... then he smiles again and shows you those ivory white teeth!Ahh.... I must be in the dark continent... the night is clear, the stars are out and you wonder if this is what the European night sky looked like before industrialization??
6to8........ I do miss it sometimes!
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Yes, I tried to....
explain to some cosmopolitan American Indians that I have indeed seen the past and it wasn't so glorious or perfectly in harmony with nature. When they asked me how I did this, I said I simply took a Boeing time machine from Frankfurt to Nairobi and then a Antonov Pterodactyl another 350 miles north west.
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Nigerian Air Law Exams
Hello,
I am looking for any information about the Nigerian air law exams. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?
Even a different thread here? Am I in the wrong place?
Thank you!
b
I am looking for any information about the Nigerian air law exams. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?
Even a different thread here? Am I in the wrong place?
Thank you!
b
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When your passenger manifest grows until the moment the co-pilot slams the door.
When dead bodies don't count! I once did a medi-vac and spent 10 minutes explaining that I'm weight restricted and could only carry 12 people with me. I told the guys to prioritise the casualties and load up. I come back 10 minutes later to see 12 very happy passengers + 3 dead bodies sneakily packed under the seats! I then explained, as diplomatically as possible, that they still weigh something.
When dead bodies don't count! I once did a medi-vac and spent 10 minutes explaining that I'm weight restricted and could only carry 12 people with me. I told the guys to prioritise the casualties and load up. I come back 10 minutes later to see 12 very happy passengers + 3 dead bodies sneakily packed under the seats! I then explained, as diplomatically as possible, that they still weigh something.
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We always place the dead bodies under the seats in Congo especially in non-pressurised aircraft - saves a lot of screams and panic from the pax and new co-pilots when in flight at altitude they "come alive" and sit upright due to reduced air pressure!
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We always place the dead bodies under the seats in Congo especially in non-pressurised aircraft - saves a lot of screams and panic from the pax and new co-pilots when in flight at altitude they "come alive" and sit upright due to reduced air pressure
Can some body please explain in detail why this happens? Will they really sit up from a lying down position?
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I must step in to defend Africa here...
Many millennia ago when I was young and starving in my aviation career, I carried a dead body in a Cessna 150, covered in a blanket and strapped in. Of course the blanket kept coming off the head. Should have seen the face of the kid that parked me at destination. Told 'em I was rough on instructors. Fill it with 80/87 boy, clean the windscreen and don’t bother me while I unload.
The guy I worked for in Arizona.....would do ANYTHING for a charter.
The guy I worked for in Arizona.....would do ANYTHING for a charter.
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Yes. Dead bodies can do odd things as pressures change. Just a word to the wise. Don't ever open up a body bag, even if you're ready to swear on a stack of bibles that the person in there is alive.
Yes. Dead bodies can do odd things as pressures change. Just a word to the wise. Don't ever open up a body bag, even if you're ready to swear on a stack of bibles that the person in there is alive.
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You know you are in Africa when .....
Jokes like this make sense !!
A black couple are huddled together under a thin blanket in a rat infested
shack in the middle of Harare.
There is no water or electricity and they haven’t eaten for weeks.
They are slowly dying.
Suddenly there is a rumbling in the pipes and water starts to gush from the
tap.
The light bulb flickers and then shines in the room.
They look out of the window and a truck in the street is handing out food.
“Get my AK47” shouts the guy “The bloody white men are back”
A black couple are huddled together under a thin blanket in a rat infested
shack in the middle of Harare.
There is no water or electricity and they haven’t eaten for weeks.
They are slowly dying.
Suddenly there is a rumbling in the pipes and water starts to gush from the
tap.
The light bulb flickers and then shines in the room.
They look out of the window and a truck in the street is handing out food.
“Get my AK47” shouts the guy “The bloody white men are back”
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I don't like it at all. It's too cynical to be funny, somehow.
It may describe certain places in Africa that I've also been to (talk about Somalia and Nigeria), but definitely not the many lovely places with good guys and very pleasant memories which I have in Africa.
This "joke" is just racist black-and-white painting.
It may describe certain places in Africa that I've also been to (talk about Somalia and Nigeria), but definitely not the many lovely places with good guys and very pleasant memories which I have in Africa.
This "joke" is just racist black-and-white painting.
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Too cynical to be funny ..... you mean too close to the truth which nobody wants to face because it's 'politically incorrect'.
Now if you want cynicism, someone once said : "We gave them aid and in return they gave us AIDS."
Now if you want cynicism, someone once said : "We gave them aid and in return they gave us AIDS."