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Hi folks,

 

Better explain the name change, craigbrierley is now Bongodriver, derived from the fact I drive a Bongo apparently, the islander had a nickname 'Bongo'

 

 

There you have it

 

 

 

Bongodriver :good:

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yoink! stealing bongo's thunder!

 

for those who don't know, the Islander is a little Britten-Norman plane of rather simple design. High wing, twin Lycoming six-bangers, fixed gear, and pretty short takeoff. Famous for their reliability, efficiency and general usefulness. There's also a three-engined version (the trislander) and a turboprop version (the turbo-islander. Duh.)

 

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here's the islander. Cute, huh? :tongue:

 

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and here's the trislander, kinda like a mini, prop version of a DC-10!

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where do you usually fly?

 

 

I am based at an airport called Manston in SE England, flying for HM Coastguard, our primary duties are surveillance to monitor the traffic sepparation scheme in the Dover strait (English channel) and we patrol the Thames estuary and southern part of the north sea, also for SAR we provide the search part of it visually and with on board homing receiver for marine band vhf, 121.5 mhz airband vhf, 243 mhz military and 406mhz, if we need to we also have an air droppable 7 person liferaft and 121.5 mhz marker buoys.

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