African Pilot - October 2022

In this issue

Inside this month:

Special Feature

AMOs and Refurbishment 2022
Aircraft Maintenance and Aircraft Refurbishment including Cockpit Panel upgrades (Read more on page 64)

Hunt for the Rietbok by Wouter Botes
The mystery surrounding any aviation event, crash, disappearance or tragedy, will forever fascinate most people. Is it the unusual scenario that flight places human beings in, or the fact that it doesn’t happen very often? That is compared to vehicle accidents and most other tragic events. The fact remains that any plane with it’s crew and in most cases, passengers that vanished into thin air, no pun intended, rules the headlines and creates a life of it’s own in the minds of everyone following the developing story. Malasia Airlines Flight MH 370 is a very good example. (Read more on page 138)

Inside this month:

Children’s flight 2022
The African Pilot team of four photographers and me shooting video for most of the time visited the Orient Airfield to attend the Children’s Flight on Friday 2 September. What a beautiful event that was well organised with no incidents. (Read more on page 164)

Rand airshow
This year’s Grand Rand Airshow sponsored by Master Power Technologies was incredible, after several years where the airshow had been on hold due to the pandemic and other reasons. (Read more on page 172)

African Pilot Magazine Description:

African Pilot is a niche market specialist aviation magazine that has been publishing uninterrupted for the past eighteen years. Subscribers to the magazine can expect glossy layouts with a modern ‘coffee table’ look featuring South African, African and world aviation events, interesting facts about aviation, historical features and general news within aviation. African Pilot is the only South African aviation magazine that strives and is most successful at covering most southern African aviation events. The magazine provides a platform for the organizers of airshows and specific aviation events to market their particular event to members of the public.