Tel. Phoenix Aviation, Darwin to assess work schedule on G-KIRK. PFA for permit issue, possible snags? DECISION GO< GO< GO.
Overflight for flight plan clearances to book and pay for (need 14 day lead). Compulsory Insurance cover required for Vietnam, Cambodia and China! She will never appreciate it! Tel Insurance Brokers, unable to find anyone to cover aircraft outside Europe! GPS supplier unable to supply GPS, headset etc. and his name on the aircraft.
Final Hepatitis B vaccine jab.
Preflight Plan, subject to clearances:
Darwin for the 20th April stay with Trevor James, Talk somewhere on the 21st, if any one in Darwin wants one.
Darwin Dhili, West Indonesia, 22nd April, for Borneo, Vietnam Cambodia, Tailand,Laos) and Macau.
Lists to be made of things to do and carry in flight to Darwin and in G-KIRK
Cameras,recorders etc to be checked
Survival gear to be checked
$s and more $s needed, lots of them and must also find my old epaulettes and white short sleeve shirt of the 70’s to help lubricate the uphill gradient of ‘Far Eastern Bureaucracy’!
Jean, now I know I have the use of a car in your name, along with Amelia’s , Amy’s and “the fat controller’s”, dear old Wilfy Barker (London Sydney Air Race Organiser), to not make it easy for them but in your day did you have the politics nonsense I am heading for? Any tips on how to keep the natives sweet?