Bush and Mountain Flying (3) - more snapshots

Bush and Mountain Flying (2) - more snapshots

Bush and Mountain Flying (1)

If you are thinking of Bush and Mountain flying in South Africa it would be wise to enrol for a course of instruction.

Here are some of the factors that you need to consider:

Bush Flying:

• Short, soft, rough and unimproved field take-off and landing
• Know the aircraft
• Optimum flap setting
• Maximum power for take-off
• Stabilized approach
• Braking
• Ground effect
• Very short landings
• Optimum speed at touch down
• Retracting flaps at touch down
• Taxying
• Unimproved surfaces
• Tailwheel/Nosewheel techniques
• Tying down
• Short field take-off
• Short field take-off with obstacle
• Short soft field take-off with obstacle
• Short rough field take-off
• Crosswind take-off
• Short field landing
• Short field spot landing
• Short soft field landing
• Landing over an obstacle

Mountain Flying

• Winds
• Rotors
• Mountain waves
• Orographic cloud
• Mountain breeze
• Valley breeze
• Fohn effect
• Katabatic wind
• Anabatic wind

Botswana Rain Showers (Virga?) & Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe

Flying in Southern Africa - Mozambique

Some Pics from Mozambique

It is gratifying to see so many hits on this blog from so many countries on our planet.

It would seem that some of the blogs on this site are useful to budding flyers. That is good!

While I think about future blog entries here are some pictures of Mozambique from my friend in South Africa.

Instrument Flying.

How is your instrument flying?

My thanks to the author of this cartoon. It is one of my favourites!

Click here for a link to an aeroplane that I used to fly in my formative years in the RAF - the Whispering Giant. Here is a picture of the cockpit of the Bristol Britannia.