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The Antipodees.
Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
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Last post Re: This will have China real…
by bob2s View the latest post Wed Mar 30, 2022 11:03 pm
Somewhere called Europe
Might have some relevance to a few
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20 Topics

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Last post Re: Sailing in Croatia---any …
by TheGreenGoblin View the latest post Tue Nov 02, 2021 8:52 am
The New World
Probably not that new now.
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7 Topics

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Last post Re: Local Airman Collecting f…
by Cacophonix View the latest post Tue May 09, 2017 1:08 pm
Effrika
Nice place if it wasn't for some of the locals
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53 Topics

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by TheGreenGoblin View the latest post Tue May 03, 2022 7:07 pm

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Only in Effrika

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Tue May 03, 2022 7:07 pm
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by Mrs Ex-Ascot » Wed Apr 01, 2020 1:36 pm
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This amused me just now; :))

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How a list of South African tornado statistics taught me about the collapse of empirical science and governance in my benighted country...

Look at...
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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Tue May 03, 2022 7:07 pm
This will have China really worried!!!

Last post by bob2s « Wed Mar 30, 2022 11:03 pm
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by prospector » Tue Mar 29, 2022 8:20 am

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New Zealand must send strong signal to Pacific over China - Defence Minister Peeni Henare

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This Prme Minister has let the lure of Chinese money into his or other pockets blind him to response he will receive from the indigenous people in...

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Last post by bob2s
Wed Mar 30, 2022 11:03 pm
False passports, but not a problem for these folk

Last post by Pontius Navigator « Sun Nov 28, 2021 8:26 am
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by prospector » Tue Sep 14, 2021 4:58 am

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:-\

A man who may have unknowingly helped funnel money to terrorists behind the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka has been granted refugee status in...

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Sounds like a bunch of savages.

When I was there in 1973 a newspaper report included ran amok with a machete of a Maori on the funicular railway...

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Last post by Pontius Navigator
Sun Nov 28, 2021 8:26 am
Denel staggers on!

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Tue Nov 02, 2021 1:16 pm
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by TheGreenGoblin » Tue Oct 26, 2021 3:15 pm

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Terry Crawford-Browne
The ANC and its militarist hangers-on just would not listen when it became glaringly evident during the 1994/95 Cameron...

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Who woulda thunk this back in the 70's...

A seven-strong group of SA Air Force (SAAF) pupil pilots working on aviation skills including piloting...

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Tue Nov 02, 2021 1:16 pm
Sailing in Croatia---any advice

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Tue Nov 02, 2021 8:52 am
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by G~Man » Thu Sep 05, 2019 5:43 pm

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I figured I would ask the learned masses of Ops-Normal, as I am sure some will be able to point me in the right direction. I did ask on the other...

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And that's why I don't have a super yacht or a helicopter. :((

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Not much point in having a Superyacht in Arizona, well not before the...

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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Tue Nov 02, 2021 8:52 am
Never let it be said we do not learn from others mistakes

Last post by prospector « Fri Oct 15, 2021 8:14 pm

by prospector » Fri Oct 15, 2021 8:14 pm

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Among Europe’s dirtiest: ‘Green’ biomass power plant in Yorkshire burning ‘renewable’ wood emits MORE CO2 than UK’s coal – report...

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Last post by prospector
Fri Oct 15, 2021 8:14 pm
Moremi Air Prang

Last post by Ex-Ascot « Thu Oct 14, 2021 5:39 am
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by Ex-Ascot » Wed Feb 20, 2019 3:29 pm

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Relax Cape. Understand that they plonked an Airvan in this morning. Statistics balanced. First since the tragic AKD in 2011. Seems no one hurt.

For...

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I posted the above on TOP without the comment about the CEO. It has been removed. The CEO threatened to sue them due to my comments at the time....

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Last post by Ex-Ascot
Thu Oct 14, 2021 5:39 am
Annecy

Last post by G-CPTN « Sun Jul 11, 2021 3:41 am
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by reddo » Sat Jul 10, 2021 7:09 pm

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Flew to Annecy yesterday. It's near Geneva. Interesting terrain around the place. Small airport. A lovely little FBO with that delightful personal...

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What I know of Annecy is that it was the home town of the French family with a daughter that I met during a caravan holiday in 1959 at Carshalton in...

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Sun Jul 11, 2021 3:41 am
Suprise revelations on Bob Hawke activities

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by prospector » Tue Jun 29, 2021 1:08 am

‘People’s PM’ Bob Hawke’s slavish service to US intelligence shows Australia has never been independent, let alone a democracy

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Tue Jun 29, 2021 1:08 am
In and out of Africa

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Sat Jun 19, 2021 11:30 am
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by Undried Plum » Fri Jun 18, 2021 3:44 pm

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John Barry did such a brilliant job with Born Free that it was inevitable that he would be chosen to write the score for Out Of Africa....

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One of my favourite pieces of music from one of my favourite films from an era in African history I find totally fascinating.

John Barry was a...

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Sat Jun 19, 2021 11:30 am
Pan African Parliament chaos...

Last post by Pinky the pilot « Wed Jun 16, 2021 11:00 am
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by TheGreenGoblin » Wed Jun 02, 2021 6:06 am

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So much for African unity!

Scuffles broke out during a meeting of the African Union parliament on Monday, as a week-long debate over the election...

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I sometimes wonder just how many of the NR Population who celebrated the end of White rule now secretly wish that the Whites were back in power. :-?

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Last post by Pinky the pilot
Wed Jun 16, 2021 11:00 am
Some Local Excitememnt With a Happy Ending.

Last post by Pinky the pilot « Wed Jun 16, 2021 10:57 am
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by ian16th » Fri May 14, 2021 10:01 am

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A recovery project in the making!

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If you broke it, you didn't get to go home until you fixed it.

Yers!! Like the time I was once on a strip the wrong side of the Owen Stanley...

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Last post by Pinky the pilot
Wed Jun 16, 2021 10:57 am
The disease of BLM or is it wokeness, reaches our fair shores.

Last post by ExSp33db1rd « Mon Jun 14, 2021 10:59 pm
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by prospector » Mon Jan 18, 2021 2:07 am

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Obviously not all their customers have perused the sign on the left of the photo

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I agree, can't even pronounce Aotowotsit, never mind spell it. I wouldn't dream of being disrespectful or criitical of Maori, let them carry on doing...

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Last post by ExSp33db1rd
Mon Jun 14, 2021 10:59 pm
Well, we keep letting them in...

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by EA01 » Sun Jan 31, 2021 10:11 am

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Sun Jan 31, 2021 10:11 am
How to responsibly treat your motor

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Wed Nov 18, 2020 6:44 pm
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by ian16th » Tue Nov 10, 2020 2:42 pm

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........ the African way!

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Pity the old prison at the top of Roeland street isn't operational any more. Those idiots could have gone straight there without collecting R200.00....

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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Wed Nov 18, 2020 6:44 pm
First Australian?

Last post by ian16th « Sat Oct 10, 2020 12:48 pm
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by Woody » Fri Jan 25, 2019 10:02 am

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Last post by ian16th
Sat Oct 10, 2020 12:48 pm
ETOP's and things

Last post by Undried Plum « Sat Sep 12, 2020 2:43 pm
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by ian16th » Sun Mar 03, 2019 1:39 pm
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An article written by an ignorant journo, about the possibilities of future long flights from Cape Town to the Australian east coast.

This journo...

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Please Sir, me Sir!

Gimme the nav data and I'll crunch the numbers for you. Geodesy is an advanced subset of navigation and used to be a major part...
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Last post by Undried Plum
Sat Sep 12, 2020 2:43 pm
Storm

Last post by Cooda « Wed May 27, 2020 11:33 pm
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by Woody » Sun May 24, 2020 8:45 am

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Hopefully none of our members or their families are going to be badly affected.

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Only in those parts of the world where countries can be described as cute or quaint . :p

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Last post by Cooda
Wed May 27, 2020 11:33 pm
Operation Argon - du Toit - Gerhard - British Intelligence

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Wed Apr 22, 2020 6:29 pm
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by TheGreenGoblin » Sat Apr 18, 2020 3:57 am

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I was prompted to think about this operation yesterday by an old friend who is suffering in lock down in Saudi Arabia and to whom I had sent a video...

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An Islamist extremist group in northern Mozambique has killed dozens of villagers in its most bloody attack.

More than 50 people were massacred in...

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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Wed Apr 22, 2020 6:29 pm
A Reason to be Employed by a French Airline.

Last post by Slasher « Tue Oct 22, 2019 7:17 am
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by ian16th » Tue Sep 10, 2019 9:06 am

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This should appeal to pilots!

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Concord would’ve made Concorde sound like a ball of pants rope.

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Last post by Slasher
Tue Oct 22, 2019 7:17 am
Airline Grounded By SACAA

Last post by ian16th « Mon Oct 21, 2019 1:10 pm
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by ian16th » Sun Feb 04, 2018 4:06 pm
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The one and only airline to fly between Margate and Joburg.

We're cut orf, we are!

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It seems as though we, in banana land, will have a service to JHB again!

On 17 October 2019 CemAir received its renewed Aircraft Operating...
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Last post by ian16th
Mon Oct 21, 2019 1:10 pm
SAA Mismanagement Causes Problems For Others

Last post by Woody « Sat Sep 21, 2019 8:40 am
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by ian16th » Wed Sep 18, 2019 12:10 pm

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SAA Mismanagement Causes Problems For Others.

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Maybe BA should use LHT, as one A380 flight to JNB operated 14 hours late earlier this week and last nights BA59 to CPT currently has a 20 delay,...

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Last post by Woody
Sat Sep 21, 2019 8:40 am
Bridge collapse near Genoa (IT)

Last post by Capetonian « Sun Aug 18, 2019 8:04 pm
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by Capetonian » Tue Aug 14, 2018 2:25 pm
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Tragically it looks as if a couple of dozen people have been killed when a motorway bridge near Genoa collapsed this morning. I have driven over that...

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Programme now on National Geographic
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Last post by Capetonian
Sun Aug 18, 2019 8:04 pm
Grace Mugabe

Last post by Woody « Sat Jul 27, 2019 10:40 am
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by ian16th » Wed Dec 19, 2018 11:27 am

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It would be 'unwise' for Grace Mugabe to visit SA again, say legal experts

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Of course this has nothing to do with Bob and Grace X(

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Last post by Woody
Sat Jul 27, 2019 10:40 am
Botswana Hunting Ban

Last post by ian16th « Thu Jun 27, 2019 8:59 pm
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by Mrs Ex-Ascot » Sun Sep 10, 2017 5:27 am

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Just read this article on the beeb online .

Throws a very positive light on the hunting ban here, and is well written in my opinion. :)

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I think it's great that they're going to Southern Africa, but do we really have to let them come back?

Couldn't we, y'know, just leave them there?...

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Thu Jun 27, 2019 8:59 pm

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