Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Mario verteld over zijn eerste belevenissen
Hello Hans
Thanks for your reply. I have not gotten around much to meet people as I had a
lot to do the first three weeks. It took some eleven days for my licence
validation. Then there was lots to do on the plane at the 200 hrs inspection
and almost more afterwards. Minair did not do a very good job this time.
However, the plane is up and flying now.
I am also flying for UNHCR now since the ASF Caravan left for the Congo. I
think that they will be there for about three months but will do maintenance in
Bangui. So I hope I will see them from time to time. The C 182 is still around
and it seems that they still want to keep it here.
I met one guy from MSF France today but he kept a bit of a distance. I will
certainly try to meet as many other people as I can.
If you can give me any names, telephone numbers or email addresses that would
be nice. It would make my looking around easier.
The Ultralight (Technam) is in Bangui and I saw it flying once. I did not meet
the pilot though.
I am glad that you enjoyed flying with Christoph. He is a nice guy and a good
pilot. And on top of that he can also work on airplanes. Sorry that this
spoiled your trip to Kenia. But is it certain yet that he will go? I have not
heard from him yet. What about the plan that they want two pilots there and
maybe a second plane?
Have I told you what Minair did with the fuel selector switch? They put it in
the wrong way. So when the switch was on the right tank the fuel was actually
switched off. With the switch on both it was on right tank and so on. I luckily
found out on the ground when after engine start I switched to right tank and
the engine died. Furthermore they broke a connector that earthed the magneto.
So you could switch the mags to off and the engine was still running on the
right magneto. The problem with Minair is that there are always too many people
working on the same thing and this creates confusion. When installing the
magnetos they also damaged the cable that controls the RPM instrument. The
cable finally broke 15 minutes after take off and I had to return to Bangui. So
the first few days after the maintenance were rather annoying.
Greetings
Mario
Thanks for your reply. I have not gotten around much to meet people as I had a
lot to do the first three weeks. It took some eleven days for my licence
validation. Then there was lots to do on the plane at the 200 hrs inspection
and almost more afterwards. Minair did not do a very good job this time.
However, the plane is up and flying now.
I am also flying for UNHCR now since the ASF Caravan left for the Congo. I
think that they will be there for about three months but will do maintenance in
Bangui. So I hope I will see them from time to time. The C 182 is still around
and it seems that they still want to keep it here.
I met one guy from MSF France today but he kept a bit of a distance. I will
certainly try to meet as many other people as I can.
If you can give me any names, telephone numbers or email addresses that would
be nice. It would make my looking around easier.
The Ultralight (Technam) is in Bangui and I saw it flying once. I did not meet
the pilot though.
I am glad that you enjoyed flying with Christoph. He is a nice guy and a good
pilot. And on top of that he can also work on airplanes. Sorry that this
spoiled your trip to Kenia. But is it certain yet that he will go? I have not
heard from him yet. What about the plan that they want two pilots there and
maybe a second plane?
Have I told you what Minair did with the fuel selector switch? They put it in
the wrong way. So when the switch was on the right tank the fuel was actually
switched off. With the switch on both it was on right tank and so on. I luckily
found out on the ground when after engine start I switched to right tank and
the engine died. Furthermore they broke a connector that earthed the magneto.
So you could switch the mags to off and the engine was still running on the
right magneto. The problem with Minair is that there are always too many people
working on the same thing and this creates confusion. When installing the
magnetos they also damaged the cable that controls the RPM instrument. The
cable finally broke 15 minutes after take off and I had to return to Bangui. So
the first few days after the maintenance were rather annoying.
Greetings
Mario
