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(Video) Aircraft refueling in Congo
Show this to FBOs that complain when you don't have single point refueling. (www.youtube.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Bahahaa! No way!?! It has to be something else like the fuel truck is broke during refueling or it's some kind of additive? I love the single point refueling subtitle! Too funny!
love the kids under the wing
I wonder do have to pay for airport tax and if they do what away to pay the tax for these type of service.
I wonder,do they have enough fuel to fly???
I wonder,do they have enough fuel to fly???
I've been in and out of Africa many times in years past criss-crossing the length and breadth of the continent in heavy DC-8s including stops at such "tourist attractions" as Chad, Angola, Morroco, Senegal, South Africa and Namibia (civilization), et. al. Was in Angola where the airport operations terminal still bore the bullet holes from the Israeli rescue at Entebbe. Looked very similar to the airport at Kuwait City right after it reopened and was still being smothered by black smoke from the multitude of gas pressurized burning oil wells dotting the landscape. At Entebbe airport it's easy to see how Lake Victoria could be mistaken for the ocean at ground level. It's also easy to see how Dr. Livingston could have disappeared for so many years without a trace. In any case, single point refueling was available on every stop. I gotta believe the title is a mistake. This was likely a case of some fuel additive, maybe anti-icing fluid, being added to the fuel after single point pressurized refueling had been completed?
The only problem I ever had traveling through Africa was "negotiating" with the airport authorities on the price of their ground services which always started on the moon or beyond but after repeatedly offering them the airplane as payment, they would eventually come down to earth and we'd settle on a mutually agreeable price. They wanted the green stuff, U.S. dollars. Didn't need no stinking airplane! The locals had to figure in their cut while the remainder was passed up the chain. Graft and corruption is a way of life there, kinda like it is in American politics. I always had to pay in CASH so you can imagine my concern knowing that they knew the Captain was carrying a bank roll. On layovers I slept with one eye open and always carried the bank roll with me when leaving the hotel room. And no I didn't carry a personal firearm. That would have been a guarantee of trouble. There was some security in the fact that the locals didn't want to let the goose that laid the golden egg to get harmed.
The other problem was communications with what passed as their version of ATC or diplomatic clearance to enter the various sovereign country's airspace. It was normal for the guy on the other end to either be asleep at his post or absent requiring endless "wakeup calls." When he finally did answer it was often as we were exiting his airspace. I was always relieved to have Africa in the rear view. You have to feel sorry for those trapped in that existence as is true of so much of the world. Makes you appreciate home, the USA.
The only problem I ever had traveling through Africa was "negotiating" with the airport authorities on the price of their ground services which always started on the moon or beyond but after repeatedly offering them the airplane as payment, they would eventually come down to earth and we'd settle on a mutually agreeable price. They wanted the green stuff, U.S. dollars. Didn't need no stinking airplane! The locals had to figure in their cut while the remainder was passed up the chain. Graft and corruption is a way of life there, kinda like it is in American politics. I always had to pay in CASH so you can imagine my concern knowing that they knew the Captain was carrying a bank roll. On layovers I slept with one eye open and always carried the bank roll with me when leaving the hotel room. And no I didn't carry a personal firearm. That would have been a guarantee of trouble. There was some security in the fact that the locals didn't want to let the goose that laid the golden egg to get harmed.
The other problem was communications with what passed as their version of ATC or diplomatic clearance to enter the various sovereign country's airspace. It was normal for the guy on the other end to either be asleep at his post or absent requiring endless "wakeup calls." When he finally did answer it was often as we were exiting his airspace. I was always relieved to have Africa in the rear view. You have to feel sorry for those trapped in that existence as is true of so much of the world. Makes you appreciate home, the USA.
Sorry that should have been Uganda, not Angola.
rather primative isnt it..oh well guess they get the job done.
What a way to refill an aircraft.