SAVAS NICOLAIDES- Having done my CPL in a 182RG at Wonderboom’s Loutzavia Flying School, I knew that this is the aircraft that I would want to eventually own, as it suited my needs perfectly. Good Cessna 182RGs are hard to find, particularly with a newish factory engine and mine wasRead More →
Sometimes it’s the most straightforward flights that throw a curve-ball when all you wanted was an easy trip from A to B. I mean, how hard can a 25nm hop be? IT WAS ABOUT SIX A.M. and still dark on a chilly winter’s morning as I shuffled towards the CessnaRead More →
(LETTER – HJK) – IN THE FINALISATION of the business rescue plan for South African Airways the Business Rescue Practitioners presented a business plan for the next 5 years. This business plan was the stepping stone to a new – viable and, in the long term profitable airline – orRead More →
(Text and Pics: Guy Leitch & Garth Calitz ) Phalaborwa – Aerobatic contests are the most demanding and extreme form of FAI competition flying. It is therefore heartening to see the high standard engendered by the national Aerobatic Championships. THANKS TO SPONSORSHIP from Ingmar Bezuidenhout, the 2021 National Aerobatics ChampionshipsRead More →
WELL OKAY MAYBE an aircraft coating is not strictly a gadget – but we are getting reports of how good the latest aircraft coating is. Barend de Toit is the local agent for Feynlabs range of coatings, and he has expanded his market to include a ceramic aircraft coating. HeRead More →
Fixed is the new retractable. “Landing gears are made retractable in all modern high-speed airplanes. The drag of fixed ‘under-carriages’ used in old-type, and still in small and slow airplanes, is avoided in this manner.” Thus wrote Sighard Hoerner, the great compiler of drag data, in 1951. ONE OF THERead More →
In a welcome development for helicopter operators in the northern suburbs of Johannesburg, a new “Ultimate Helistop’ has been opened. STEYN CITY IS AN UPMARKET residential and commercial estate north of Johannesburg. In keeping with its exclusive nature if has now opened a heliport to enable improved connectivity with theRead More →
I have recently demonstrated to myself that the likes of Zoom are not king in the communications world. Nothing beats traveling for an in-person meeting where required for business. THINGS STARTED OUT a little gloomy. Boarding the Airbus A350 in Johannesburg, bound for Doha, it appeared that the prophets ofRead More →
WHY THE BEECHCRAFT DENALI WILL NEVER BEAT THE PILATUS PC-12. The Beechcraft Denali is said to be a 103% photocopy of the PC-12—a comment Pilatus finds flattering. And it is, after all, an old truism that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. IT IS REMARKABLE that it has takenRead More →
The US Immigration EB-2 NIW green card not always a slam-dunk. (By Dianne Stewart – President, PathwayUSA, Charlotte, NC, USA) So you’re a pilot with ATP and possibly even FAA licences. You would like to live and fly in the USA, and you’ve been told you can get an EB-2Read More →
