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Heathrow Harry 12th Aug 2018 15:54

Interesting - those cars are driving on the LEFT I think - so ................. one of the ones in red - it's actually one of 78 places see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...t-hand_traffic so not a lot of help..................

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.gmf...2c3289fae4.jpg

dook 12th Aug 2018 16:17

The doppler VOR beacon doesn't help either.

Heathrow Harry 12th Aug 2018 16:24

Yes - but somewhere they haven't got a decent taxi way to the end of the runway......................... = possible lack of space or just cheap...................

Since it's not "on the Map" I suspect an island in the Caribbean or the S Pacific.......................

Heathrow Harry 12th Aug 2018 16:31

Nadi 09 is close but hasn't go the road round the end of the runway.... I thought Nauru but wrong heading

Heathrow Harry 12th Aug 2018 16:38

Raratonga in the Cook Islands? not a place I've been but it's on the list

Heathrow Harry 12th Aug 2018 16:52

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.gmf...6b5c64c56e.jpg
Done a bit of the S Pacific - would really like to to get round Tahiti and the outer islands there... but try this

India Four Two 12th Aug 2018 17:07

Harry just beat me to it!

Slight thread drift about driving on the left. I used to live in Jakarta, as did Harry, so he will remember this story. In order to establish the prestige of the British Government, the Foreign Office had sent a giant Daimler limousine for the use of the British Ambassador. Not only was its size completely unsuitable for Jakarta's mostly narrow streets, but one of Sir Humphrey's colleagues had obviously decided that since Indonesia had not been a part of the British Empire (at least not since Raffles' time), traffic must drive on the right, and therefore the Daimler was LHD!

Heathrow Harry 12th Aug 2018 17:45


Originally Posted by India Four Two (Post 10221779)
Harry just beat me to it!

Slight thread drift about driving on the left. I used to live in Jakarta, as did Harry, so he will remember this story. In order to establish the prestige of the British Government, the Foreign Office had sent a giant Daimler limousine for the use of the British Ambassador. Not only was its size completely unsuitable for Jakarta's mostly narrow streets, but one of Sir Humphrey's colleagues had obviously decided that since Indonesia had not been a part of the British Empire (at least not since Raffles' time), traffic must drive on the right, and therefore the Daimler was LHD!

In Indonesia the law says LHD but everyone is free to make their own mind up - I can remember 8 lanes of traffic outside the National Stadium one night - they were (from the left) - ahead, towards, towards, ahead, ahead, towards, ahead ahead.... hardly any accidents at all............................

dook 13th Aug 2018 07:35

Not much to go on in the challenge. Far East ?

Heathrow Harry 13th Aug 2018 07:39


Originally Posted by dook (Post 10222239)
Not much to go on in the challenge. Far East ?

Yes - and they drive on the left!!!

Heathrow Harry 13th Aug 2018 09:07

It has a very very limited scheduled service - but the area is famous (to some of us) for a scientific proof........................

dook 13th Aug 2018 09:57

Oh dear - off we go island hunting again I suspect.

Heathrow Harry 13th Aug 2018 11:15


Originally Posted by dook (Post 10222343)
Oh dear - off we go island hunting again I suspect.

Welllll - yesssssssssssssssssssss it's an island but not a teensy weensy one that you can see from one side to t the other (like Funafuti say....)

dook 13th Aug 2018 11:23

Thanks HH.

Still hunting...….

Cows getting bigger 13th Aug 2018 11:23

Mr Wallace and the Malay Archipelago?

Heathrow Harry 13th Aug 2018 13:05


Originally Posted by Cows getting bigger (Post 10222412)
Mr Wallace and the Malay Archipelago?

Good shot!!! A very significant Line indeed!!! But no - not Ternate - tho' I have visited his house there........ and posted a challenge on here a years or so back from there......

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.gmf...f2b2231348.jpg

dook 13th Aug 2018 14:46

Are we in Sarawak by any chance ?

Heathrow Harry 13th Aug 2018 15:27

The house is in Ternate on the other side of Borneo

The airfield is a lot further from the equator...................

Heathrow Harry 13th Aug 2018 15:38

Another picture..................

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.gmf...d2e633070a.jpg

dook 13th Aug 2018 15:39

I didn't mean the house.

Forgive me if I appear dumb, but we are in Malaysia are we not ?


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