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Agree and we found the worst on clearing customs on a medivac flight was the Russians. We picked up several people who were on deaths door and had to pass through Moscow outbound back to Germany or London and the idiots could have cared less if the patient was inconvenienced or not.
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wow, joe..from my readings on here you've gotten to see a lot more of the 'other half of the world' than i did doing air ambo. mine was mostly international, but canada, caribbean, central and south america and western europe. i just didn't have the experience in the mid or far east. of course, cheap maintenance was an ongoing problem with my company..saw us whittled down from 7 captains to one - me - in a year, plus the loss of a couple of ubiquitous old lear 20 series jobs. we did have a lr-36xr that we used for overseas. the last trip i turned down right before i quit was to go to concepcion island, which i recall to be about 1,000 miles east of buenos aires, refuel and fly to africa, refuel, cross the middle east and got to italy..and then back around (and naturally below the tracks) to gander and back south. i laughed my ass off to the dispatcher and said i was honestly no longer comfortable taking that plane to 'toledo', much less africa and the middle east. fortunately the ops. director backed me up..said he wouldn't do it either. pictured myself on the end of a spear somewhere in africa or having navigational failure and getting shot down by a rogue mig in the middle east. i didn't know my way around those parts..had no business going. no thanks! rant over. out!
ryan