Sling Madagascar Tour 2015

Ahead of our Sling Madagascar Tour 2015 here's a video clip of a pilot in a Cirrus ditching in the sea.

The Sling Tour will leave Tedderfield Airfield, home of The Airplane Factory later this year, and we will fly up to Vilanculos on the east coast of Mozambique before heading out for the 4 1/2 hour flight over the Mozambique Channel to Toliara International Airport on the west coast of Madagascar. 

The tour group will be well equipped with ELTs (emergency locator trasmitters), life rafts and life jackets in the event of any mishap during the flight over water, but will hopefully not be required. The video clip shows how a safe landing can be made on the sea and the solo pilot was rescued by the USA coast guard. Email me at slingfans@gmail.com to join the tour.

Our Sling ZDL is also equipped with a ballistic parachute such as the one in the photo

Students

Well the "holidays" are over so there's no been too much time for flying my own plane yet in 2015. The flight school has also been quite demanding with over 300 flights being handled over the December / January period.. not too much my own, but I have the admin behind it all to keep up to date. My own few students have also kept me busy, although the heat of Durban is on us and the best flying time is after 4pm as the sun gets lower.

Getting our flight school aircraft out of the hangar for another flight

My student Bill who has taken up his life-long ambition to fly

Great photo of Durban's Moses Mabhida World Cup Football Stadium on the wingtip of my flight school Sling FYA

Durban city and harbour en route seawards of the Bluff to the Virginia General Flying area inland of Amanzimtoti