ZDL has been sitting in Louis' hangar in Cato Ridge in the place of his plane as the next flight was going to be to Tedderfield in Johannesburg to fetch his plane back from it's 25-hour service. A month has gone by and with the shitty weather en route it has been impossible to go sooner. Yesterday we managed the trip, starting out on a misty morning with the clouds hanging over Pietermaritzburg in the hollow. After skirting the clouds and getting over the ridge, the sky was relatively clear and we made it to Jhb and back in a morning.
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| The clouds hang over Petermaritzburg as we picked a route to skirt them |
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| 8500 ft passing the craggy koppies half way |
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| Estcourt and Wagendrift dam on the way home |
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| Getting a bit hot as the morning sun burns down |
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| A quick glimpse at the Sling 4 in production at The Airplane Factory |
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The familiar sight of Durban's Bluff at the reporting point near home, with the harbour and city in the distance
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We left at 6.30am in ZDL taking Louis to Johannesburg, picked up his plane and flew home in our respective Slings completing the round trip by 12noon.
