SA Flyer – For the love of flying

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Register Review February 2024

February has shown steady growth in the number of aircraft registered. Four fixed wing and one helicopter were added while the non-type certified (NTCA) register grew by seven. There are some late additions included from January in this month’s updates that were not included in the previous month’s updates. The

Hugh Pryor – Teleportation and future flying

One of the best clients for whom I ever flew was BP, the British oil giant. I was with them in Algeria for about seven years, from the very start of their large gas projects, right in the heart of the Sahara Desert, near the small towns of In Amenas

Iris goes to Somalia Laura McDermid continues her stories about Iris McCallum in East Africa.

Having spent the last couple of years flying to a rota, I was thoroughly enjoying the freedom and randomness of flying charters at Sunbird Aviation. Granted, the aeroplanes weren’t as modern, in fact the old Piper Aztec 5Y-ARN was the most cantankerous of any aircraft I’d ever flown; however I

Jim Davis – Fuel Systems – why so complicated?

You know those aggranoying people who say, “Oh I wouldn’t fly in one of those little things – you can’t just pull over and fix it if something goes wrong”? What makes this particularly irritating is that the bastards are right. Pupes, pilots and instructors lend me your ears. By

Opening Shot – Grant Timms

Grant Timms is one of those pilots happy to fly anything anywhere. And thus it was that he got roped into a marathon ferry flight in a Piper J3 Cub, ZS-MXT, from Springs to Morningstar in Cape Town. Day 1 was 8.3 hours to Beaufort West. Day 2 was 3.8

Cheetah vs Gripen: To Repair or Replace older equipment?

Guy Leitch Many African governments have lacked the skills and resources to do major maintenance and repair work to keep older equipment up to date. With the carrot of foreign aid and industrial participation offsets being dangled over procurement departments, the preferred option has usually been to replace older equipment.

Random Acts of Luckiness

Peter Garrison Someone once suggested that if you want to know how you would feel crossing an ocean in a single-engine aeroplane, you should just fly out to sea for a couple of hours and then turn around and come back. There’s something about being out of sight of land

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