Meanwhile in Nigeria

[ScudRunner-d95]

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[Eric Janson]

Just another day in Nigeria - nothing to see here. Move along!
Spent 6 months on and off in Lagos sub contracting to Arik Air - a bush operation with turbo props and jets!
Arik is the most dysfunctional Airline I've ever encountered. The top management thought they were "the Emirates of Africa!"
I was there during the Ebola crisis - it was quite a challenge operating flights but we managed.

[David MacRay]

Kind of reminds me of arriving at Revelstoke early one evening. The geese didn't have motorcycles though.

[DeflectionShot]

On the bright side no one can accuse the government of over-regulating Nigerian civil aviation.

Goes to my theory that the best air shows nowadays are happening in non-western countries.

[Colonel]

I always loved doing airshows in Central America.  No rules
and great pay.  Hard to beat that combination!

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TC hated us doing them, but it was great fun.

[ScudRunner-d95]

Sorry Colonel I'm triggered and need a safe space your newspaper has a bikini clad woman and a dead body on the front page.


I need avocado toast  ;)

[Colonel]

[quote]a bikini clad woman and a dead body[/quote]

I'm neither one - I was flying the yellow S-2C  ;D

IIRC  I was flying inverted down the runway, and
Freddy (in the red S-C) mentions on the radio that
the Honduran military had taken off in the opposite
direction, headed straight for us, and maybe I should
move over, over top of the parallel taxiway to let them
go by?

Fun times.  Central America was never boring.  We
would do head-on takeoffs and landings in the Pitts.
Guess who would get stuck with the 20 knot tailwind?
We both would pull vertical at opposite ends of the
runway, do a 1/2 cuban-8 and do another head-on
pass, smoke on.  The trick was to time it so you crossed
in front of the crowd at show center.

I remember doing a surface loop in the yellow S-2C,
and coming over the top, some woman screams in my
ears, "Terrain!! Terrain!!" - it was the goddamned G496
wired into the ICS for XM radio.  Fucking thing scared
the hell out of me.

There was enough runway there, that if you did the loop
slowly, you could land out of it.  People liked that.

Good times.  I'm #3 here - you like my intercept angle?

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Gringos at the mess:

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TC went fucking bananas, called DC and had an Inspector on the
ramp at Key West to meet us and check our 24-0045's.  They
really hated us flying and would do just bizarre shit to try to
shut us down.  Really pathological.

I wish I could fly as well as a TC Inspector.  Not a [i]single one[/i]
ever took me up on my standing offer, for them to come out
to the airport, strap on a chute, climb in the front seat and
show me what I was doing wrong.

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[David MacRay]

Avacado toast? That's like Sasquatch I keep reading about it but never saw one.

[Slick Goodlin]

[quote author=Colonel Sanders link=topic=8861.msg24371#msg24371 date=1534565023]
[quote]a bikini clad woman and a dead body[/quote]

I'm neither one - I was flying the yellow S-2C  ;D
[/quote]
Never would have guessed. I was going to ask if you were Jennifer Anniston’s [i]nuevo amor[/i].

[Chuck Ellsworth]

The Colonel does not like bikini clad women with dead bodies.