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    Quote Originally Posted by pickel View Post
    Or were you asking for my life story?
    "It's up to you"


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    My first flight was in a Chinook chopper during a test flight that my old man had got me onto as a kid.

    As this is planes though, first flight for me was when we went Aberdeen to Torquay Paignton. Not sure where we landed though.

    Quote Originally Posted by Headworx View Post

    Would also like to add a longest journey trip by air to see if anyone can beat it, all were connecting flights with 2 to 6 hours transit time at each airport. Bangkok - Sydney - LA - Miami - Rio - Fortaleza. Saw the sun come up thru the window of a plane 3 days in a row getting to work, it was all done in business class and I don't believe anyone sane (or tall) could have done it in cattle.
    Trying to get back in time for an offshore job, on the cheap, a week after Sonkran, during the Easter school holiday with Offshore Europe going on in Aberdeen

    Hat Yai - Bangkok - Muscat - Milan - Riga - Manchester - Aberdeen

    Cattle Class.
    Lang may yer lum reek...

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    Quote Originally Posted by dirk diggler View Post
    Hat Yai - Bangkok - Muscat - Milan - Riga - Manchester - Aberdeen

    Cattle Class.
    That had to suck.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pickel View Post
    A small Cessna for a couple hours when I was about 10.

    Or were you asking for my life story?

    where

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    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
    where
    Up in the air, then back down again to the same landing strip it took off from, somewhere in rural Saskatchewan. Can't remember the name of the "airport". More of a dirt and grass strip and a windsock, with no "terminal". They are quite common on the prairies.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Headworx View Post
    Archerfield (light aircraft airport in Brisbane) to a freshly bulldozed and graded 1000 yard strip of sand between 2 dunes somewhere in the Simpson Desert, coordinates unknown. The aircraft was a private charter Beechcraft King Air.

    Would also like to add a longest journey trip by air to see if anyone can beat it, all were connecting flights with 2 to 6 hours transit time at each airport. Bangkok - Sydney - LA - Miami - Rio - Fortaleza. Saw the sun come up thru the window of a plane 3 days in a row getting to work, it was all done in business class and I don't believe anyone sane (or tall) could have done it in cattle.
    Same. Aged 16. Perth to a Graded airstrip in the Gibson desert near Warberton in a single engine cessna stopping in leonora for fuel to join a siesmic crew

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    Quote Originally Posted by Topper View Post
    That had to suck.
    That did suck, and I had to collect my luggage and check in again at every stop.

    Joe90, no medication other than booze.

    Froze my bollocks off in Milan as it was snowing and baltic even in the airport. was glad to pick up my bag there and get some warmer gear on.

    I was so impressed with the atmosphere in Riga airport that I promised I would go back there when I get a chance to visit the City.

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    Round and round some air force base in the rear of a transport aircraft with the ramp down and open. When I was in Air Cadets.

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    ^ I recall being much amused by lots of guys in my jump school class - who had never flown, and took off in a plane five times without ever landing in one.

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    KHI-BKK in 1979 when I was 15. My father was expelled from Iran by the government for protesting against the Shah so we were kicked from Iran and then we went to Pakistan.
    When first arrived here we seeked for asylum and got detained. Laws in the past were different because so many Vietnamese and Khmer entered Thailand that time. If remember correctly Permanent residence was easy to obtain in the past as because of Vietnamese and Khmer refugees entering the nation.

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