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  1. Seasons Greetings from East Africa
  2. Murphies law: If it can happen it will happen! Like a relatively clear day and your destination has a dirty great thunderstorm over it!
  3. I love the cloudless sky in the morning.....its a good start to a day with no flights more than 100 miles from base
  4. I wake up to heavy rain outside then lie back and relax it's my day off I don't have to go up flying in the weather
  5. Had a charter out bush today and got to spend most of the day lounging in a safari camp.....one can never complain about a free lunch
  6. Christmas work party last night was awesome.....it was topped off with a 0700 take off this morning
  7. I struggled with some questions in the English proficiency test and English is my first Language??! I need to go back to school
  8. I have to do a English profficiency course tomorrow....shouldn't I be exempt for being born in a English speaking country?
  9. So it only took 2000 hours to have my first engine failure and it was in a turbo prop not a piston! who would of thought?
  10. The screaming was the power turbine self destructing after a blade came off in the turbine. The PT6 is made by humans after all.
  11. When the turbine suddenly started screaming and the prop feathered my heart rate went through the roof...luckily I was on short final!
  12. nowadays it takes something preddy big to surprise me in this place...almost become de-censortized
  13. Enjoying a lazy standby day on the shores of Lake Victoria watching the clouds build up for the afternoon bout of thunderstorms
  14. Yesterdays Arusha was clogged in with bad weather so had to shoot the ILS into Killimanjaro international to wait out the weather
  15. is off to the TCAA to get an endorsement on his license...in theory I only have to pay and get it stamped...this is Africa though......
  16. will fly you there...after you purchase a ticket of course
  17. had lunch in a local bar with raw uncut blood red Ruby's being sold all around him
  18. would give his left arm to fly a Caravan with the Blackhawk XP42A upgrade..850 SHP...but then who would let a 1 armed dude fly solo?...
  19. dreads radioing operations with an ETA at the end of the day in fear of hearing the words..'Have you got enough fuel for a Zanzibar?'
  20. Who paints an airliner with advertisements for hard alcohol....