There and back again

Well that's two trips to Pietermaritzburg and back.. yesterday to drop off our flight school workhorse, Sling FYA, for another 100 hour service, and back again today to fetch the plane.

I can never get enough photos of our marvelous Durban coastline and Stadium, so here's another batch. The May weather in Durban is always stunning and the blue of the sea is amazing. So I got to take photos from 3 different aeroplanes - my Sling ZDL going there yesterday, our flight school Bushbaby Explorer MSC today going there, and our serviced plane Sling FYA which I flew home today.

The Durban coastline shortly after take-off from Virginia Airport

The Umgeni River mouth off the wingtip of ZDL

A SunCoast routing takes you right over the Stadium

Selfie, Selfie, Selfie ha ha 

Durban Harbour mouth on my return from Pietermaritzburg

A clear day both days and stunning view of the Stadium

Durban's Moses Mabhida Stadium and Kings Park pool

Routing inland at SunCoast casino seen through the stuts of MSC, a high-wing taildragger

Alverstone Mast from 3500 ft - see if you can see it, and my aunt's farm with the grey slate roof in the foreground

Homeward bound from Pmb in FYA

You can see it's a new day because I changed my shirt ha ha

Long weekend

 Beautiful long weekend for flying. My partner and co-owner of our Sling, Llewellyn, is due to do his pilot's licence flight test today, so we did a flight to the General Flying training area yesterday to run through the procedures on the skills test and let him practice the manouvres.

I also started a new student off on his quest for a National Pilot's licence and we did some of the preliminary exercises in the GFA.

Durban's Bluff and harbour from the wingtips of our Sling ZDL

Dave and Llewellyn (right) in ZDL

Passing our World Cup Football Stadium along the Durban beachfront

The Bluff, where I used to live and where my Bluff office is situated

Student Gordon flying with Dave