SA Flyer Magazine - April 2023

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In this issue

SA Flyer Magazine April 2023
Incl Flightcom and Helicopter Feature Guide

The SAA V2.0 Fantasy

There is rapidly mounting evidence that we are being conned by the government about the real chances of success for the new SAA version 2.

6 mins

PETER AND NICK'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE

A phalanx of Restricted and Military Operating Areas confronts pilots heading north out of Los Angeles. Between sprawling Edwards Air Force Base and the Naval Air Weapons Station situated at water-free China Lake, a pilot studying the chart for the first time must think the way impassable.

5 mins

RIGHT SEAT RULES NO. 4 - PREPARATION FOR FLIGHT

Instructors, you instruct with your mouth, not your hands and feet. And the only things you have in your toolbox are words.

10 mins

FUEL PUMP F-UP

AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT REPORT

6 mins

BOSE NEW A30 HEADSET

It's always a big thing when Bose announces their next generation aviation headset. Their last big launch was 13 years ago with the A20.

2 mins

FEBRUARY 2023

anuary is usually the slowest month for the aircraft register, but perhaps reflecting the decline in the aviation industry, this year February has it beaten by quite a bit. There were only four Type Certified aircraft registered two fixed wing and two helicopters.

1 min

HAI HELIEXPO 2023: EXPLORING THE WORLD'S LARGEST HELICOPTER INDUSTRY GATHERING

South Africa may have the largest and busiest general aviation sector in Africa, but when we look worldwide, over 80% of flights occur in North America alone. A substantial number of these flights are helicopters.

4 mins

AIRBUS H125

We have said it before the French make the best helicopters. In the light helicopter series the original AS350 Écureuil (or Squirrel) has been a huge success and it was natural that the giant Airbus would continue to develop it only now called the H125 after the takeover of Aerospatiale, (which gave it the AS prefix).

8 mins

STICK TO THE RULES

Try listen to your gut, follow the POH, be ready for the unexpected...and pray.

5 mins

CAPE TOWN HELICOPTERS' - NEW EXPERIENCE FOCUS.

Cape Town Helicopters has adopted a specific focus on tourist operations particularly in the Cape Town area which is world-renowned as 'the Fairest Cape in all the world'.

2 mins

TRUSTY TWIN

I don't know if you are familiar with the workings of the De Havilland (Canada) Dash 6, otherwise known as the Twin Otter, but they're surprisingly complicated for what has become one of the classic bush aircraft of all time.

3 mins

AIRLINK TO LAUNCH NAIROBI - JNB

Airlink will become the first private sector airline service, from to offer a daily Johannesburg-Nairobi 24 April 2023.

1 min

IRIS GOES TO KHARTOUM - Laura McDermid continues her stories of Iris McCallum's flying exploits.

In Part 1, Iris introduced us to the American Congressman and diplomats she was flying with three planes from Nairobi to Khartoum.

5 mins

NEW STRUCTURE STOPS EAST LONDON ILS/VOR

The ILS and VOR approach to the primary East London Runway Runway 11 has been NOTAMed as \"permanently closed\" due to a structure having been erected on the approach to Runway 11.

1 min

TURKEY'S DRONES FOR AFRICA

There are few greater recent success stories in military UAVs than Turkey's rapid transformation over the past twenty years into one of the world's key suppliers, mirroring a huge advancement in the rest of its indigenous defence industry.

4 mins

MISSION FLYING IN AFRICA - THE BEST AND WORST OF HUMANITY

Child rape is tragically all too common in places like South Sudan where justice isn't often delivered. Mission Aviation Fellowship comes to the rescue.