Guy Leitch It is a tragedy for general aviation that Rand Airport is currently in a state of upheaval, if not outright war. The airport has been through three General Managers in three years and there is ‘lawfare’ between factions of the board members. In 2022, after six years onRead More →
Text and Pictures – Grant Duncan Smith Helicopters have been very successfully used in a massive environmental preservation operation in the Western Cape. The ‘Helihack’ alien vegetation clearing operation was conducted in October on Table Mountain. The challenges facing those who seek to rid the Cape of alien vegetation wereRead More →
Laura McDermid continues her stories about Iris McCullum in Rwanda. There are certain years in a person’s life that remain emblazoned on one’s memory forever. In fact, I’d go as far as to say that they are imprinted on one’s soul. Those years define us and shape who we are.Read More →
The SACAA has said it would be doing navaid calibration for the DRC. The question immediately arose – what with? – after the crash of the Citation ZS-CAR in George.I asked the CAA and they replied:“We are leasing an aircraft with crew and system; however, the function to calibrate remainsRead More →
Guy Leitch asks the question in his Attitude for Altitude column. For years I have moaned about how crappy piston aircraft engines are. They are prohibitively expensive, yet have antiquated technology and are far less efficient and reliable than modern car engines. The modern car now has mature technology engineRead More →
Is it as bad as they claim?Darren Olivier – Defence Editor Reflections on Inkwazi Inkwazi, the South African Air Force’s Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) used for VIP transport, has been reliably racking up the flying hours this year. In just the past two weeks before writing this column it flewRead More →
In 2016 musician, Michael Ferguson and commercial Pilot Felix Gosher joined forces to offer underprivileged children the opportunity to experience the joys of flight, a privilege that many of us take for granted. The initiative was inspired by a song by Michael, ‘Paper Plane’ about a young boy with aRead More →
The piston twin is making a comeback. In the 1980s, under the pressures of high maintenance and high Avgas prices, the demand for piston twins collapsed in the face of Cessna Caravan and Pilatus PC-12 turbines. But now, the value proposition of a 40-year old piston twin is once againRead More →
Airlink, has unveiled a distinctive special-liveried new addition to its fleet . The newly acquired Embraer E195 jetliner, which now sports a classy jet-black paint scheme, debuted on a test flight at O.R. Tambo International Airport this morning and will soon operate on Airlink’s main domestic and regional trunk services.Read More →
