• Air Show, Visas, No Insurance! Route?

    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...

  • Most Systems GO, GO,GO

    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...

  • D-Day Cub Around the world

    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'...

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