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Old 19th Sep 2008, 06:35
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NEO,

Not yours!

John,

The aircraft was a round gauge C+. I'm not sure, but doesn't VXP record stuff like that, even if it's not displayed?
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Not exactly 100% sure but rumour has it, its in PH at the Naffie base and no longer has a flying chicken painted on the side. Zoom in on the blade root.

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And this is what they used to look like (using the deduction that as the photo is named BGN1, it was 5N-BGN!).....

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Old 19th Sep 2008, 10:18
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Torque indicator only reads to 120 on the A model, is correct , if you are running Hums, VXP or Alt Air they will record torque transmited, during the flight, We recently had a engine out on A model and the good engine got to 123% Tq for 3 seconds with a droop of Nr to 89%. Pilot could not initially find the Torque needle as it was pegged to the stop, once he was clear of the water everything reverted to normal OEI ops.
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Old 19th Sep 2008, 11:49
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Nigeria Militants Release South African Hostages in Niger Delta

You are in good hands with MEND!



By Karl Maier

Sept. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Nigerian militants in the Niger River delta said they released two South Africans abducted by kidnappers last week.

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, or MEND, said it handed over the two to government secret service agents at 11:00 p.m. yesterday and expected them to be presented to South African government officials in Port Harcourt.

Their release was announced by Jomo Gbomo, the MEND spokesman, in an e-mailed statement.

The South Africans were taken hostage on Sept. 9 along with three other international oil workers, including two Britons and one Ukrainian, when their vessel was captured by unknown gunmen.

MEND said on Sept. 15 it freed the hostages from what it described as pirates. It said it would release the South Africans after an appeal by the wife of Henry Okah, the militant leader who used to live in South Africa and now faces trial for treason in Nigeria.

The militants last month freed two German hostages employed by a local unit of the Mannheim-based construction company Bilfinger Berger AG, after they were abducted by kidnappers.

MEND says it is fighting on behalf of the inhabitants of the Niger Delta, who have yet to share in the oil wealth of the region. Attacks by armed groups in the region have cut more than 20 percent of Nigeria's crude exports since 2006.
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Been busy...

Sorry to have missed this whinge-fest but I was on a low-level mission to Madrid by Okada. I went looking for Cuatro Vientos Airport, Madrid and I was doing fine-fine, following a Cessna 172 until I had to stop at a traffic light and he just carried on. Bummer! After I lost him I went wazzing around in circles for about 45 minutes, never more than 1 kilometre from the airport but do you think I could find it?

I want to re-invent myself as a Flight Instructor under JAR. Well, why not? Bigger idiots than I have become Training Captains, eh?

Foamy Coolings, ah! What a pity that fate dictates I not be there now to enjoy this your very style of man-management. You do seem to have a way about you, getting and keeping the attention of the line slime and I am sure we would enjoy working together, if only as your Chop Master.

The desert has had to do without me for the better part of two months now. Big-big visa problems and this time I can put my hand on my heart and say that, no, I have not upset anyone. Well, one Chief TC yes, but he has nothing to do with visas. It was just blind fate that I have had two months here under the domestic lash, like a toad under a harrow. AIDS (Aviation-Induced Divorce Syndrome) is a definite risk if I do not get the hell out of Dodge next week.
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Savages and other critters...

Henry Okah used to live in South Africa?!?...now there is a twist. Let me guess maybe the bright bulb Mbeki has got a stake on all the kidnappings and ransome money. Would not surprise me the least!!!

On another note; that rotorhead looks pretty f%#$d

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Old 19th Sep 2008, 17:32
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Alouette Chill mon Chill!

Alouette,

I thought you were chilling in the Caribbean - enjoy Rastah enjoy before the return to chaos!

P.s. how about 6 pockets?

have a great holiday!

Trog.

Re S76 - holy f - any more scurrilous rumours on how it happened?
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Old 19th Sep 2008, 17:36
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Hello Trogs,

I sure do chill in the Caribbean... it is veeery relaxing...check your hotmail
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chuks,

My advice is to stay exactly where you are. If you were to come back (if the promises were ever kept that is) sadly you just wouldn't fit in anymore.

"Wazzing" is called indisciplined flying in the Ops Manual and the punishment for it is very clear; you wouldn't have time to unpack before heading off again. The Warri underbridge activities of Trog and I all those years ago are OK because it wasn't against the law then, but any young buck (like yourself) who dares to compromise, or God Forbid Bad Thing, transgress the Global Target Zero Culture of Safety is out the door without a backward glance.

Chop Master is out of date too, nowadays we have an a la carte menu lavishly created at (our) great expense by Madam Beila to choose from. Provided you give 24 hours notice you can have a miniscule portion of anything on it. Complaints are studiously ignored, as are remarks and comments about quantity.

Stick with the desert and the opportunity for wazzing that goes with it. Not to mention the abundant C rations.............

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Times change...

I hear you NEO but the idea of squeezing Naira 150 per cup of luke-warm Nescafe out of the BRC inmates is just so, so... exciting somehow! Whatever next? Charging per bean on the baked beans oozing onto the toast at brekkie? I just never saw the chop as a profit centre of excellence (for me, of course!) but now my eyes have been opened. Too late, too late... the story of my life.

Would it make a difference if I told Mr Coolings there that I have done the Lagos Yoruba conversion course including the final exam, the 100-yard sprint down Airport Road wearing flip-flops and a "Rat Quench" vest, tap-tapping on the window of a rusted-out Mercedes W124 with the boot sagging down, going "Sssst, sssst, Mastah you buy, eh? Cheap-cheap! I make you good price!" Who needs a Harvard MBA when you have that on your resume? You want excellence, I got it centred!

Guilty as charged when it comes to 'low flying" but in extenuation let me point out that it was a motorcycle I was using there! I have never acheived much in the way of lift with that thing, just the odd inch or two coming up out of the "Karussel" at the "Nordschleife" but that was about all.

I recently did have this training bod telling me to do it the way I was taught, when it came to flying my patterns at bush strips. I had to laugh, thinking, "Hmm... I guess you never flew the "Chief's House 1 STAR" at Warri Airstrip did you?" You know, the one where you went down to 200 AGL past the big satellite dish and then waited for the threshold to appear out of the murk. Or not, as appropriate.

I was doing that one day with a helo pilot in the right-hand seat when I had to throw it away on short final, just that little bit too much off on speed and positioning. He looked across at me as if to ask, "What are you doing?" I had to explain that we couldn't flare to a hover in a Twotter, could we? No probs, we got it the next time around.

I am now supposed to fly these huuuge patterns that seem like going on a short cross-country flight. It just seems like more of an opportunity to screw up compared to keeping it in tight but, yeah, it is all SOPs for this, that and the other. "The way it was taught" must mean something else to these guys; to me it means the way Nigeria taught me to fly.

I think it is simply tragic that I have had so long playing it straight without the payoff, the chance to sell out and screw my brothers. I don't ask for much, just the desk, the chair, the big split airconditioner, the "Daily Telegraph" from three days ago to read and the chance to dream up ways to shaft the guys out on the hangar floor and flying the line. Is that too much to ask for?

I can write memos with the best of them and in my heart of hearts I am a true b*stard so, come on, Foamy, just give me the chance to prove it.
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NEO,

News for you....Chuks did not fit in the first dozen times he was in Nigeria!

His mangling of the German language certainly led to his early departure on at least one occasion that we know of (or perhaps a weak appreciation of what it takes to be a Test Pilot).

So long as the bar tender pours a full measure....Chuks would still survive in good shape as we all know his preference for perching in the BRC Bar compared to dining in the exclusive Plank W@nkers Bistro.

Low Level to a Plank driver is anytime they are using a non-standard altimeter setting such as QNH....that our Chuks fails to mention.

We helicopter pilots...much maligned by the BRC Plank community....know what low level is. One might suggest that upon hopping over the trees at the River across from the Warri IA...and thence picking up the old survey line that runs to Forcardos....as being low level. It sure was more dependable than the instrumentation in the old 212's were it not?

All that being said....I would love to be a bug on the wall....amongst the thousands....to see the scene when the added injury of having to pay 150 Naira for a cup of Nescafe wounded Chuks. I bet you would hear the whining clear to Cameroon!
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Old 20th Sep 2008, 10:25
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Originally Posted by SASless
One might suggest that upon hopping over the trees at the River across from the Warri IA...and thence picking up the old survey line that runs to Forcardos....as being low level.
As long as you flew around the raised paddles being held up out of the dugout canoes while flying across the river mouth
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Actually the old Whirlwind was far the best thing at Warri as it was on fixed pontoons and when the weather got too bad you could just land on a cut somewhere, water taxi to the bank and get the crew chappie to secure your chariot to the bank with the spike. Then it was down into that nice big cabin with your book and sandwiches until the weather improved .

As for the Patani bridge or the walkway on Funiwa, I'm taking the Fifth Amendment .

Chuks, you'd love the BRC now. The level of service is now so superb that you'd be lucky to get your baked beans before having to catch the bus - unless you're up by about 0430 to get your order in. These new-fangled modern beans obviously take much longer to bake. I'm not even sure they're Heinz, which is the only sort of bean a chap should really consider.
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Aww, you guys!

I went along on an air test one day, out of Escravos in a Bell 206. Next thing you knew we were headed down the Escravos River trying to get a real close look at the girls' tits in the dugout canoes. One rather perky set merited a tight 360 but by then she was cowering in the bottom of the canoe. I guess her mother had warned her about those helicopter pilots and she must not have been able to tell the difference with me. Call that "guilt by association" if you like.

I have been waiting here for that call from Caverton but... nothing. I got the pointy shoes, I figured out a paint scheme for the Bajaj, I even came up with a set of extra-excellent 5-bar epaulettes to go with the shiny rhodium-plated tin wings. Damn! Do you suppose that German S.O.B. beat me to the punch?

Your man Foamy Coolings, well, I guess he doesn't really need a stray Oyingbo to show him how to mess people over?

I never did get much into that low-level stuff, tending to go with the Dirty Harry injunction that "A man has to know his limitations." One day in Florida I did have to fly around a condo on the beach up by Fort Lauderdale in the process of chickening out due to a low ceiling but that doesn't count because it wasn't me and you cannot prove it. That was before all these nasty little video cameras and the internet. Anyway I went around the back of the building, the side without the balconies.

Try that today and you would be on the Six O'Clock News before you could say, "Flight Safety District Office? Umm, yes, what can I do for you, Sir? You want me to drop by for a chat and bring my licence and logbook? I see..."
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Thumbs up Catpain Chuckies you are welcome!

Chuckies,

Do not pay the heeds to the likes of In Laws or Soggy Boxes - they are fine men in spite of their bad advises and my plan to give these men the 50% discounts on coffees and delicious meat pies and half portion of chips in the luxury dinning facilities in the BRC is waiting approvals from the Scotch Boss and his hunchman the mini Scotch Boss. Then they will back on the Target Zero team spirits!

I have read your resumer with interest and no jaundice in my eye:
Who needs a Harvard MBA when you have that on your resume? You want excellence, I got it centred!


I can write memos with the best of them and in my heart of hearts I am a true b*stard so, come on, Foamy, just give me the chance to prove it.


Catpain - I am the man to give you this chance - I will p.m. you a Humane Resources application when my Concubine has finished skinning it.

As Soggy Boxes says (with only small COBI allowed censorship to improve understanding):

Chuks, you'd love the BRC now. The level of service is now so superb that you get your baked beans before having to catch the bus -our fine pointy breasted staff wake you by 0630 to get your order in and any other thing a viral man needs. These new-fangled modern beans obviously take much longer to bake. I'm not even sure they're Heinz, they are well well better and are only short time past Lidl sell by date which is the only sort of bean a chap should really consider.



Turn your backs on the Deserted Sands and Rug Heads and come back to your Almar Mutter in the Centre of Excellents. Your WASBU issue pointy shoes (size 14) and fine glittering six bar epaulettes are already on order - we need to honour a man of your distiction and even Fresh Fish jetranger drivers in Escravos get four shinny bars so you will get what you are deserving.


F.C.
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That is what I ran away from...

What I am deserving...

Dear Ogah,

Or may I call you Foamy? I want to be up on the toppest floor now, with you and your friends, if you have any, not down and out on the ramp or the hangar floor with those other losers who have to do the work. I did that for over 20 years and what did it get me? Tinnitus and a bad attitude towards anyone in charge is what.

No, it is time for a change. I want to go over to the Dark Side of the Force.

Just a small office will do, one with a door that locks, a telephone that never rings and a meaningless title on the door. A secretary with pointy breasts would be nice, preferably a female one, but that is not strictly necessary.

Yes, pay me more than I am worth, which probably doesn't have to be very much at all, not forgetting the title ("Assistant Chief Deputy Head of Human Resources" has a nice ring to it, for example) and I shall reward you most loyally by sticking it to my once friends, all those people who laughed at me when I got bucked off my little Bristow bronco into that patch of thorns. How heart-warming it wasn't to walk into the bar to be greeted by a rousing chorus of "Loser!" Now let the pointy shoes be on the other foot, hah!

"Revenge is a dish best served with baked beans on the side." Machievelli said that, I think.

This isn't going to be like the last offer, is it? I sent the man my bank details but I never heard back about becoming Chief Pilot Fixed Wing for the Twinned Ootter. It might be a problem with the mails here in Germany, I don't know...
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Ah well...yes baked beans

Hey, if you demand baked beans why don't you order additionally a delicious cup of Nescafe for the ridiculous amount of 150 Naira? It really rounds off this succulent meal.
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fish Welcome back to your village Catpain Chuckies

Chuckies,

You may call me Mastah Foamy.

The "Assistant Chief Deputy Head of Human Resources" door sign is being made by the finest cahpentah next door to BRC as we speak. I gave the driver 1000 Nairas so expect the toppest quality. I have instructed the real Security to evacuate the Training Catpin office and the Oyibo ex Special Farces Securities people also - we have no needs for this unecessary expenses in the modern WASBU did the drivers not train before we hired them and cannot people move around without being kidnupped?
You can make your choices of Office and keep the best furnishings. The telephones never ring anyway - we cut them off to make economies!

Tinnitus and a bad attitude towards anyone in charge is what.
I am not sure what this tinytus is - it has a certain ring to it though - the bad attitude is not a problems - the Scotch Bosses are well well used to this by now.

A secretary with pointy breasts would be nice, preferably a female one, but that is not strictly necessary.
Chuckies - I beg now - do not start lifting the shirt tails - I will make the choice of eviers for you!

I have the toppest budget to pay you more than you are not worth - my savings by paying flat rate workover with no extra CLA and taking $7.00 a day from
all those out on the ramp or the hangar floor with those other losers who have to do the work
(I am assumpting that you mean the chopper drivers) while they are on courses plus charging for meals in BRC even for those losers who have the contract to be fed has made my bosses lots of Nairas. The pointy shoes shall be on the other foot, No Wahallah if you use them to kick the asses of peoples like Alloo ETA!

"Revenge is a dish best served with Lidl baked beans on the side."
I like that - does Machievelli want a secretary job?

This most surely isn't going to be like the last offer I promise O - p.m. me your Bank Account details and do not worry if you get no reply for some time. The mails can be slow before the Xmas.

F.C.
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wit te elp of God evyting is possibie

Hey numbnuts FC,

if you want to give Machiavelli a job you have to dig him up - pendejo!!! Where you live? In a ditch, mate? The projects?
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