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Airline CEO Insights: Burning Issues
At the recent Airlines Association of Southern Africa annual conference, Guy Leitch took the opportunity to canvass the various regional airline C-suite executives about what the burning issues are that their particular airlines face. The current CEO of Air Zimbabwe, Edmund Makona, likes to quote a previous IATA Director General,
Rising Stars
Laura McDermid Sling Aircraft was awarded the coveted August Raspet award at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh this year. The award is given annually to a business or person that has made an outstanding contribution to aircraft design. Highly regarded for their durability, fuel efficiency and excellent performance, Slings are the
Sun n Fun Report
Laura McDermid Whenever the annual calendar of events is put together at the beginning of the year, October always seems like a million miles away. And so inevitably the EAA Sun ‘n Fun fly-in arrives far sooner than anticipated. The Spar up the road from where I live is already
Register Review September 2024
Morné Booij-Liewes The September registration updates is a mixed bag of imports and exports. We see five type-certified fixed wing planes being registered during September, but no helicopters. A brand-new Pilatus PC-24, ZS-NID, was delivered for the transport and logistics company Ni-Da, replacing their earlier model PC-24 that has been
Pilots sleeping
Guy Leitch There are some subjects which create massively heated debate and then just go quiet. So, for a bit of excitement, I thought I would prod one of them back into life. A particularly inflammatory topic is airline pilots comparing their flight time to pilots who fly short charters,
Piper Saratoga SP – A Great Beginning
[intro] SA Flyer owned a Saratoga II TC and this top of the range model has trended to overshadow the early basic Togas which were Piper Lances with the tapered wing. It may have been a basic beginning, but Jim Davis reckons it’s still a great plane. [body] Jim Davis
Guy: on Safair’s non-resident ownership
https://www.ewn.co.za/2024/11/04/flysafairs-licence-under-threat-due-to-breach-of-foreign-ownership-rules Stephen Grootes interviews Guy Leitch, SA Flyer Magazine Editor. FlySafair’s Licence Under Threat: Foreign Ownership Rules Breached 04:25/04:25 Budget-airline FlySafair is not compliant with foreign ownership rules, according to the Air Service Licensing Council. According to current regulations, foreign ownership of a domestically registered airline is limited to 25%.
Register Review August 2024
Morne Booij-Liewes We start this month with a new Air Tractor AT-502B, ZS-XKB. The manufacturer describes this model as “the world’s most popular ag plane with over 1000 of these aircraft having been manufactured since 1987. Several of these are already in service in South Africa in agricultural, firefighting and
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Exercise 8 – DESCENDING
Jim Davis Descending is a remarkably complicated subject and us overworked instructors have to be able to field all manner of questions about it. To ease you gently into it – here’s the story about Joe’s picture. It was 1964 when I clambered on to an SAA Skymaster at Eros
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Sun n Fun Report
Laura McDermid Whenever the annual calendar of events is put together at the beginning of the year, October always seems like a million miles away. And so inevitably the EAA Sun ‘n Fun fly-in arrives far sooner than anticipated. The Spar up the road from where I live is already