harrry 37 Posted October 10, 2017 Author Share Posted October 10, 2017 Please login to display this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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harrry 37 Posted October 11, 2017 Author Share Posted October 11, 2017 https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/01/07/2015-33258/prohibition-against-certain-flights-in-specified-areas-of-the-sanaa-oysc-flight-information-region is still the current US prohibition for the area. We are under the Australian registry and this is not covered by this however the risk exists and we will be leaving in a few minutes after the paperwork is finalised. Our co pilot, Hudson Fysh is handling this at the moment and I understand it is taking all his negotiatng skills to keep the 'charges" within reasonable limits. Quote The FAA has determined that there is an unacceptable risk to U.S. civil aviation operating in the Sanaa (OYSC) FIR, excluding that airspace east and southeast of a line drawn direct from KAPET (163322N 0530614E) to NODMA (152603N 0533359E), then direct from NODMA to PAKER (115500N 0463500E), due to the hazardous situation faced by U.S. civil aviation from ongoing military operations, political instability, violence from competing armed groups, and the continuing terrorism threat from extremist elements associated with the fighting and instability in Yemen. International civil air routes that transit the specified areas of the Sanaa (OYSC) FIR and aircraft operating to and from Yemeni airports are at risk from terrorist and militant groups potentially employing anti-aircraft weapons, including Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS), surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), small-arms fire, and indirect fire from mortars and rockets. Due to the fighting and instability, there is a risk of possible loss of state control over more advanced anti-aircraft weapons to terrorist and militant groups, and some of these weapons have the capability to target aircraft at higher altitudes and/or during approach and departure and have weapon ranges that could extend into the near off-shore areas along Yemen's coastline. U.S. civil aviation is also at risk from combat operations and other military-related activity associated with the fighting and instability. There is also an ongoing threat of terrorism. Al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is active in Yemen and has demonstrated the capability and intent to target U.S. and Western aviation interests. Attacks against aircraft in flight or Yemeni airports can occur with little or no warning. Various Yemeni airports have been attacked during the fighting, including Sanaa International Airport (OYSN) and Aden International Airport (OYAA), resulting in damage to..........; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrry 37 Posted October 11, 2017 Author Share Posted October 11, 2017 Flight Number WW7884 Date Tuesday, 10 October 2017 Depart HEPS - Port Said Airport Arrive OYAA - Aden International Airport Aircraft WW-DC30 Flight Time 11:00:00 Distance 1313 NM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrry 37 Posted October 11, 2017 Author Share Posted October 11, 2017 On the ground at OOSA with the only casualty veing a coffee drowned keyboard. Next step Bombay to enter India so I can go and have a week of scuba diving on a quiet island paradise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrry 37 Posted October 12, 2017 Author Share Posted October 12, 2017 Flight Number WW7923 Date Wednesday, 11 October 2017 Depart OYAA - Aden International Airport Arrive OOSA - Salalah Airport Aircraft WW-DHC6 Flight Time 06:00:36 Distance 583 NM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrry 37 Posted October 12, 2017 Author Share Posted October 12, 2017 TIME FOR A QUICK TRIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrry 37 Posted October 12, 2017 Author Share Posted October 12, 2017 Well off to Bombay today. I was hoping to go straight to Agatti but it is not a Point of Entry for India so we have to touch the mainland. Works out a bit better for fuel though as we would have had to have drums of Avgas shipped to Agatti and that is not cheap. This way we can tanker the fuel for the return to the mainland. Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrry 37 Posted October 12, 2017 Author Share Posted October 12, 2017 http://www.aussieairliners.org/dc-3/vh-ean/vhean.html This wonderful aircraft had a long ansd sometimes sad history. A hard life for the old bird and it escaped the wreckers ball more than once. I have a particular liking for the C-47 DC3. It was a TAA DC3 in 1948 that I flew the first time from Melbourne to sydney. I can still remember the food. I flew on them may times after that, a couple of flights that stand out in my memory are a really wild flight grom Bouganville to Rabaul and another to the wonderful Trobian Islands as a charter flight. It went fairly regularly on weekends from Port Moresby to the Trobians at weekends. It could only fly as a group charter so one of the passengers had to volunteer to be the flight attendant for legal purposes.The time I went I got a good discount for doing that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrry 37 Posted October 12, 2017 Author Share Posted October 12, 2017 Please login to display this image. A sad pece of this airliner's history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrry 37 Posted October 12, 2017 Author Share Posted October 12, 2017 Six months younger than me, after beeing built at Oklahoma our aircraft joined the RAF. http://www.pacificdakotarestorations.com/history-of-fj234/ Please login to display this image. Quote The aircraft served with No. 24 squadron RAF and was used to transport Field Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson, Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean and successor to Dwight D Eisenhower. During its RAF career the aircraft had the privilege of flying dignitaries such as Winston Churchill and King George VI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrry 37 Posted October 12, 2017 Author Share Posted October 12, 2017 Well we got here.....Just in time for some food.....I am starving. Please login to display this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrry 37 Posted October 13, 2017 Author Share Posted October 13, 2017 AZ good sleep at Bombay but as they have parking problems for Aircraft there we made an early start for Goa. Was looking forward to this whhen I reads this: Quote New Terminal Building at Goa is an integrated terminal building capable of handling both domestic and international operations. The terminal building is equipped with the state-of-the-art facilities like passenger boarding bridges, CUTE enabled check-in counters, inline compatible baggage handling system, software based building management system, elevators and escalators Always did have a thing for cute check in counter operators but got a big disapointent. This CUTE refers to software. Flight Number WW7873 Date Friday, 13 October 2017 Depart VABB - Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport Arrive VOGO - Dabolim Airport Aircraft WW-DC30 Flight Time 02:30:36 Distance 229 NM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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harrry 37 Posted October 13, 2017 Author Share Posted October 13, 2017 Love the way ever DC3 landing is Like a Short Field one. Please login to display this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrry 37 Posted October 14, 2017 Author Share Posted October 14, 2017 Goa is now eeven worse than it was in 1980. Stayed 2 days there then and found the place totally full of stoned agressive pretending to be hippies. Now it is full of Drunk stoned package tourists from Europe. Ibiza and then some. Left the nexgt morning for what I hope is a paradise. Flight Number WW7860 Date Saturday, 14 October 2017 Depart VOGO - Dabolim Airport Arrive VOAT - Agatti Airport Aircraft WW-DC30 Flight Time 02:43:12 Distance 290 NM Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrry 37 Posted October 15, 2017 Author Share Posted October 15, 2017 May not be paradise but close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrry 37 Posted October 15, 2017 Author Share Posted October 15, 2017 https://www.makemytrip.com/blog/lakshadweep-islands Please login to display this image. This beats waiting in noisy crowded Bombay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrry 37 Posted October 17, 2017 Author Share Posted October 17, 2017 All good things come to an end....had to move on as they needed our DC3 parking space. Nice things to do here but no real accomodation due to disagreements between Federal State and Local governments. What unofficial accomodian is expensive (a non airconditioned room costs more than an airconditioned five star hotel in Delh). Limits the tourists and the environment is still beautiful, the water and scuba diving is beautiful. Do not come here if you want to drink though. Completely banned. I jave decided to fly out and head for a place I lived for a year. Ootty in the Blue Mountains. First a plane ride to Coimbaiture. Flight Number WW7828 Date Monday, 16 October 2017 Depart VOAT - Agatti Airport Arrive VOCB - Coimbatore International Airport Aircraft WW-DC30 Flight Time 02:46:48 Distance 287 NM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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harrry 37 Posted November 11, 2017 Author Share Posted November 11, 2017 I haave been too busy to post though I have done the flying. In summary Fogg loved Ootie. I found itg impossible to drag him out of the Ootie club, the club that is more English than the English clubs. We of course were not allowed entry as we wer mere vehicle drivers. Nevertherless it was good to catch up with old times and re-visit this beautiful oasis.. Sad to see the house I lived in was no more as a big crack develoed in the ground under it and half of it slipped down towatds the church. A lot of memories there.. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/asia/india/articles/Ooty-India-back-in-time-to-the-birthplace-of-snooker/ Please login to display this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrry 37 Posted November 11, 2017 Author Share Posted November 11, 2017 Flight Number WW7962 - Operated by Worldwide Virtual Date Monday, 23 October 2017 Depart VOCB - Coimbatore International Airport Arrive VABB - Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport Aircraft WW-DC30 Flight Time 05:24:36 Distance 541 NM Back to Bombay after a great few days. Please login to display this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrry 37 Posted November 11, 2017 Author Share Posted November 11, 2017 Flight Number WW7937 - Operated by Worldwide Virtual Date Tuesday, 24 October 2017 Depart VABB - Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport Arrive VIST - Satna Airport Aircraft WW-DC30 Flight Time 03:03:00 Distance 553 NM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrry 37 Posted November 11, 2017 Author Share Posted November 11, 2017 Off on the nexzt leg across Inda. Flight Number WW7937 - Operated by Worldwide Virtual Date Tuesday, 24 October 2017 Depart VABB - Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport Arrive VIST - Satna Airport Aircraft WW-DC30 Flight Time 03:03:00 Distance 553 NM This is where we had tto take an elephant, and met a princess...at a little town called Suti Madhya Pradesh 486220, India 25.128081, 81.575057 A pity Bombay Airport did not look like this,,,,where the Bombay Delhi Mail departed..... Please login to display this image. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/apr/21/chhatrapati-shivaji-terminus-cst-mumbai-railway-station Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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