Search results matching tags 'Around the World Solo Flight' and 'London to Sydney Air Race'

Air Show, Visas, No Insurance! Route?

Maurice — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 05:48:00 GMT

Things to do today:

Find Foreign Office website for visa search for eight countries -
Indonesia, need to visit London
Brunei and Malaysia no visas needed
East Timor need entry permit, get in Darwin
Cambodia arrange on arrival
Laos arrange on arrival
China Vietnam needs a visit to London Embassies
Thailand not needed

Still cannot find a map, chart or Atlas to choose a route, my ‘o’ level education getting a little rusty, or is it a senior moment?

Insurance ….cannot get any anywhere with this and now there’s coffee all over the lap top!!

London Air Show on Friday - might go and find someone there and a sponsor for various pieces of equipment? GPS, charts, headset, handheld, fuel/oil, money?…..name on aircraft!

Now, onto planing a route:

- Darwin to Dili, East Timor
- Dili to Hasannudin
- Hasannudin to Balikpapan
- Balikpapan to Labuan
- Labuan to Ho Chi Minh
- Ho Chi Minh to Phnom
- Penh Phnom to Danang
- Danang to Hanoi
- Hanoi to Macau

Most Systems GO, GO,GO

Maurice — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 05:42:00 GMT

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?

D-Day Cub Around the world

Maurice — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 10:36:00 GMT

Flew solo in the London to Sydney Air Race in 2001 in my old and tired 1943 US Army Piper cub, G-KIRK.

I arrived at Sydney harbour first, but later, only to be surrounded by 3 police helicopters suggesting, in their own charming way, that `Air race 35` was quite close enough to the `Old Coat Hanger'.

I stayed awake just long enough to remember being presented with a gorgeous pair of Aus boots by the Prime Minister at the aviator`s banquet afterwards. .

I arrive in HongKong on the 28th to give talks? And leave for Australia on the 31st Oct to rebuild and re-engine the old girl where she is on display at the Museum of Flight in Nawra, Sydney, NSW.

I will be giving an illustrated talk there on the 8th of Nov.and am looking to do more in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne during the 5 weeks I am there. If anyone can suggest venues?

I am looking for SPONSORSHIP to go on around the world next May/June via HongKong, China, Russia and Alaska. When I propose converting to floats for Canada.......OshKosh by August (I have not told the wife which Aug).

I am pursuing the Bear Charities :

re: Koala, Moon, Panda, Brown and Grizzly, just to name a few.

My new non contraversial web site identifying route, sponsors etc will be on line later this winter. www.kirkflyingvet.com

My current web site content caused a very generous US gentleman to sponsor me for the race with only 31 days to prepare! www.kirkflyingvet.co.uk

50 odd aircraft left Biggin Hill for Sydney, myself taking 200 hours, most at 65 miles per hour, experiencing the occasional adventure on the way.

APO (rtd) Maurice Kirk BVSc.MRCVS

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