Can you please decode JKIA ? Must be my Alzheimers again.......... ;)

When:

Your belt snaps and your trousers fall down whilst loading your C206 at Dar-Es-Salaam International because you lost so much weight from the amoebic dysentery. No-one turns a hair...

You're lining up to take off from Zanzibar and a figure pops up and knocks on the side window. He'd like a lift over to Dar please...

Having done your first three months on a tourist visa you leave the country whilst your Residents' Permit application is processed. Back in the UK and waiting for your Permit so you can return, you get an email threatening you with a fine since you must have outstayed your tourist visa and still be there since there's no Exit stamp in the photocopy of your passport which you provided at their request before you left...

Sorry. Jomo Kenyatta international airport. NBO

Nothing to do with Comair. BA had a separate franchise with Regional Air which was part of AirKenya. They closed down in 2005.

Africa
 

You know you are in Africa when South of the 58 Parallel

There can be a lot of illegal activities in Africa especially when it comes to diamond, coltan, gold and lots of minerals. There are regulated airports with functioning, at least, runways and basic approach aids. In the Congo you could be doing illegal works; flying to illegal airstrip or un regulated airports. You need to know why you are there and what to do. So don't blame Africa!
Sometimes you could be flying in a war zone with no persons in control continuously. So things can become hairy quick.

When you're in a bush bar for a cool beer straight from work and the local "entertainment" aka distings keep bothering you so in an effort to discourage them you tell them you're gay.

5 minutes later one of the ladies comes back into the bar and introduces her "Brotha"...............

jkilat5859

Thanks for sharing such a rookie post. OMFG son, good luck with ur challenges - they seem grand. :ok:

No control. Flying in Africa is sometimes safer without Controllers.

Aircraft to tower "We may have hit a dog during departure"
tower to Aircraft "le chien est mort"

Cleared for take off, approaching active runway, "we've got stop bar ahead"
ATC "##123 break the rules!"

What's the betting that the dog was a priceless racing dog, specially bred from a long line of prize-winning animals and had a long life ahead of it, potentially earning lots of money for its owner - and now you've cut the dog off in the prime of its life...

and it has 1000 owners

I was in country training pilots for the local air force who had bought a plane from my employer. Once a month we would fly the military payroll around the country. Of course this was cash, so flying it was by far the safest way.
Before we went North, the pilots would call up there for weather.
it would always be clear, even though when we arrived the sand was blowing so hard we could barley see the ground, and the runway was the same color brown with just some markers to outline it. The deal was, if we didn't get in, they didn't get paid until we did, so we always were told it was good VFR just to get us to try!

Just stumbled in here and have decided that flying in Africa drives men mad! ;)
African story (Libya's in Africa, isn't it?)
Day LL 3 ship about 10sec apart and L-R-L
Note splodge in desert ahead of #1
As #1 approaches splodge moves right and enlarges.
As #2 approaches splodge moves left and further enlarges.
As #3 (that's us) approaches splodge changes direction once again still expanding.
Note goatherd staring at us :{

One of the tricks when flying there at levels to avoid being shot at (you wanted to fly low enough so that you don't get noticed until you're over them and it won't give anyone time to aim properly) was to notice the herds of goats: if they didn't start to scatter until you were over them then you were low enough! (This probably helped recruit several young goatherds to 'the other side' though.)

You know you're in Africa when ATC clears you to land at an international airport with the following warning:
"xxxx, cleared to land. Caution people and birds in vicinity of runway"

Or when you have a long flight with a refuelling stop, you are promised that fuel is already there and of course there is none!

P.S. Why is this thread non visible in the list of topics??

You know you’re in afrika when you get shaken down at a routine “traffic stop” and the “police” find “BEEG problem”. You point out that they don’t have any bullets in the second cops kalishnikov and that you’d rather be at the pub. 2 heinekens are exchanged as well as pleasantries and all problems disappear, smiles and handshakes ensue, and you are expeditiously Enroute to your original destination.

ah yes, been there, done that in Zim, always carry small denomination US$ bills, v useful in these situations

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