Video clip rounding Table Mountain

Click on the link here for the short YouTube video clip of us rounding Table Mountain on a flight in our Sling ZDL heading towards Hout Bay.



Robben Island



Cape Town Stadium



Lion's Head

The view of Table Mountain from Table Bay

Seapoint with Lion's Head and Table Mountain backdrop

Hout Bay is around the "corner"

We landed in Stellenbosch from Agulhas before lunch and the weather was great so we decided to do a flight around Table Mountain. Thanks to Rainier from MGL Avionics (another Sling owner and manuufacturer of the MGL onboard computers in our plane) we had a full telephonic briefing on the permitted routing and frequencies for the different sectors of the flight, including skirting around the Cape Town Control Zone and after Muizemberg, routing through the Cape Town CTZ talking to Cape Town International airport for the requisite transit permissions and guidance.

The Cape Town TMA (Terminal Control area) also has certain height restrictions and we saw why when a huge commercial airliner did a turn around and above us for landing at Cape Town International Airport. Again on the Muizemberg side we were on the Cape Town take-off and landing approach so we had to fly at only 500 ft above the waves out to sea to avoid the big planes around us. What an incredible experience. The mountains looming around us were breathtaking. A first time view from this side and altitude.