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SKYAFRICA BUSHPILOTS TRAINING COURSE
Day 1
Arrival
You will be collected from Johannesburg International and accommodated in a comfortable Bed and Breakfast Lodging.
In the afternoon, we will drive down to our airfield where you will meet your Instructor and the SKYAFRICA Crew. You will then take a short familiarization flight to get to know the aircraft that you will be flying with and its systems. Information material containing essential map and navigation material will be handed to you.
SKYAFRICA has published a Booklet called “The Bushpilots Bible” which will be used as the basic reference book for this course
In the evening we will attend a typical South African Braai at the Flying Clubs Swimming Pool
You will take off for the days sortie and hone your flying skills, various short field, soft field landing techniques as well as out-landings will be practiced. You will fly out of a hot and high airfield.
Flight conditions and configuration that ordinary “straight and level” pilots hardly ever experience form part of the training. Slow flight, the use of wind and thermals, ridge flying, flying for maximum distance, are all essential knowledge for Bush operations.
A practical flight test will form part of your License validation.
The afternoon sees us planning our flight and preparing our Aircraft and Equipment for Bush flying.
Early morning we head north on our flight to a Bush lodge that will serve as our Base for the entire course.
Part of this sortie will comprise your x-country test towards your South African license validation.
The flight is a Navigation exercise that will see us land on four different fields en-route again practicing our field approach and landing techniques as well as aircraft ground handling.
The Bush lodge has its own Landing strip and we will radio ahead to make sure the rangers clear the runway from ever present grazing game and buck.
The Lodge is comfortably furnished and boasts great South African Hospitality.
Thatch covered roofs and natural stone walls blend into the surroundings and the main lodge houses a rustic bar and a lecture room.
Gargantuan steaks and other scrumptious food are on the menu and there will be many opportunities to enjoy the African Bushveld or simply to relax at the poolside.
After a nourishing Breakfast we prepare for our first Bush flying exercise flying to, landing, and taking off from various airstrips.
You will learn how to handle your Aircraft safely and proficiently on the ground as well as in the air.
Every sortie includes a thorough ground briefing on various flying techniques, some great flying and breathtaking scenery.
We return to camp in the afternoons and you will be taken out into the Veldt by qualified bush rangers who will teach you the basic skills needed to operate safely in the wild. Basic survival techniques and the handling of various tools and gadgetry necessary in the bush will be demonstrated.
This day will see us landing at various other Strips, again the challenge will be to judge the route, the weather, the fields you are going to land on until you are proficient at flying the numbers like a professional. One way fields, inclines, declines precautionary landings will be practiced.
Afternoons we make the Bush our classroom:
Rangers will take you on bush walks introduce you to tracking and teach you how to spot game, read spoor and identify various edible plant and game species.
Night and day Safari game drives will bring you in touch with Africa’s abundant fauna and flora. Antelope, Giraffe, Zebras and other Game roam freely and you will get good photo opportunities.
Evenings will include talks about Airmanship, “tricks of the trade” for bushpilots.
Day 6
Time for long range navigation, how to plan your Flight, reading of ground features, awareness of the your environment, landing site selection. You will learn how to navigate about the Bushpilots VOR and how to establish and maintain contact with other planes flying in your area.
. This night we may camp out. You will learn how to establish a temporary Bush camp, how to safeguard yourself and your Plane from the natural hazards of the wild outdoors. We will have Sundowners under the wing of our Aircraft and watch the fiery red African sun meet the horizon. Evenings are spent around the campfire taking in the sounds of nature around us. Nowhere will you see a sky so clear and the canopy of stars so bright than in the African Bundu.
Who said bush pilots may not be romantic, that why we do it in the first place?
Day 7
Mid-morning we fly back to the lodge. This will be a low-level flight where we will learn how to spot and identify game from the air.
The day is spent relaxing on the pool with a couple of Gin tonics.
For those interested, the following activities are available
Basic Firearms course
Golf
An underground visit down some old MineshaftsThe evening will be spent around a delicious farewell dinner and there will be an award ceremony for those that have proudly obtained their BUSHPILOTS CERTIFICATE OF COMPETENCY
Day 8
After saying goodbye to our hosts the rangers will clear the runway for us again one last time.We will take off for a relaxing sightseeing flight that will take us across Pretoria South Africa’s Capital city and then onwards around City of Gold Johannesburg to land at our Home Base FABB.This course will have prepared you for flying in remote areas and will give you the confidence that it takes to enjoy what must be on of the life’s most exhilarating pleasures-Flying African Skies.
Quelle
wir haben uns entschlossen den kurs vom 5. juli bis 14. juli 2007 zu buchen.
