SA Flyer columnist John Bassi is one of the last of the one-man businesses to successfully operate a Bell 206 JetRanger helicopter. He uses his helicopter ZS-HFD, in an incredible variety of roles and has published a book called ‘Pilot in the Wild’ describing his helicopter experiences.
Apart from the fact that John has managed to perfectly expose both the inside and outside of the helicopter cockpit, we publish this picture in recognition of this month’s Helicopter feature and to warn pilots of the hazards of a low cloud base in the mountains. John got a passenger to take this picture of him taking on the winter weather in the Drakensberg in his trusty JetRanger. He used his Nikon D5000 with the lens at its widest 18mm. Exposure is 1/200th sec and F6.3 using the on-camera flash.
