Perhaps you might be able to view the video from this link..?

uktv dot co dot uk/dave/series/tvseries/257711

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What a Rod Polisher!!!!!

Get your hand off it mate. I used to work there many years ago, and you make me cringe.
I'm not sure how that pull through got hired!!
Get a marriage between yourself and a life! Not to mention a couple of safety issues caught on camera, that will serve you well in your next interview!! Might want to change your name on your CV!

Haha whats happened now on that great tv series 'Maun Bush Pilots'?

Come on, spill the beans for us ex-pats please. The suspense is killing us :sad:

Off topic, but I was just wondering can any past or present pilots based in Maun comment on the conditions out there in terms of spiders, snakes and other things I don't want crawling up my thigh or chewing on my ankle whilst asleep. Would it be a problem for someone who just cannot deal with spiders?

Cheers

Everything there wants to eat you.
I once woke up with a caterpillar attached to my arm.

Snakes common.
Spiders everywhere. But they are for the most part harmless. And look like they have been squashed on the wall. But there are also some nasty buggers there too.
Scorpions. Be careful around the trees. Take a black light at night and you can see their trails.

Fifteen10 - 'you big girl's blouse'. I hope that you are not Irish my family would be turning in their graves.

Snakes all over the place, a nibble from some of those and you are dead before you can drink a Guinness. Masses of spiders, scorpions and all sort of other arachnids. About the only thing I will kill on sight though is the big aggressive centipede with a very nasty bite (scolopendra?).

Leaving aside the big stuff you could meet in the bush the most dangerous things are the snakes. But, they will try to avoid you if you are out and about. If you sleep out they do like to cuddle up next to you though (see my comment below). The majority of snakes are not deadly and most deaths are with people handling them.

Lilflyboy: Yes, so also be careful of the nightfighters :eek:

Essential stuff against all these monsters is hairspray! Take a dozen cans!

Desmodus Rotundus abound and one supposes that they become more rotund after they've feasted on you while you sleep. It doesn't hurt until the morning though because they inject a certain anaesthetic into your vein while sucking away. Rabies is epizootic with the cute little fellows so, what with blood loss and hydrophobia you'll probably faint, fall into the long drop, and scream at the sound of it sploshing all at the same time. It's very Roman Polanski!


http://www.tigerhomes.org/animal/images/vampire-bat.jpg

Not to mention...

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A good reason not to wander around in bare feet. The Baboon spider lurks under the sand. And, doesn't like being stepped on :eek:


Do we have a thread drift here? ;)

To get back to the point of this thread; could I respectfully suggest that chief pilots have a huge pet spider on their desk when interviewing these potential ‘roughie toughie air aces’ as portrayed in the latest Maun 'block buster'.

Possibly some slightly educational thread drift but at least we are not discussing our least favourite airline's cabin attendants.

Ngami Times 13/07/12

At least one taxi in Maun will have rear seat belts now :)

Good job it wasn't a Bang Seat :eek:

The inside job...

What has happened to Fifteen10? All that advice and no thanks :{

Perhaps he is now looking at Alaska.

For those of you who want to watch the Bush Pilots series, here is a link. Unfortunately, not sure why, but they only seem to start from episode 5. Interestingly, anytime a pilot is doing something idiotic or dangerous, it seems to be our favorite charter company and our favorite CEO SS has publicly stated that she has vetted all these episodes and apparently, she was STILL happy for them to be released - speaks volumes to her understanding of aviation.

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Thank you Golf Romeo Mike!

Maun, Botswana. The essential guide.
 

Hi there, is the situation now really so bd that it's useless to come in Maun with 250's? And how on earth do you increase your hrs? I mean how the hell do you afford that?
Paying 17k's for FI or 169€/ cessna hr just seema impossible when you got 100 000€ school loan on your a**.
Anyhow was planning the January, but at the moment it seems to be just foolish.

CPLPilot87 is chasing your dream ever going to be considered useless? Regardless of your chances. We've all had to make sacrifices to get to a point where taking that risk is even a possibility. I'll be taking a trip to Maun at the end of the year with less money than I need not a great deal more TT than yourself and with the knowledge that I will loose 1 part time job and quite likely need to be replaced at another. In other words the odds are against me but the financial odds were against most of us when we started... "If you don't risk it; You can't get the biscuit!"