Taking ZDL for a spin

My cycling spinning instructor from gym came with his girlfriend for a spin with me in ZDL. Fortunately the flights were good and we landed safetly

Welcome Home

A flight School audit by Raasa and my daughter arriving home after 2 years in South Korea, on the same day. Welcome home my princess.

Brenton from the CAA gives the flight school clearance for the next year

A flight with my daughter over Durban skyyes

Our flight school student doing his online Pilot's exams at the flight school 

Friends fly

It's always fun to take friends for a flight and this is Syd, my long-time buddy who used to Captain my soccer team back in the day.

The cockpit of my Sling ZDL

Prague to Mykonos to Athens to Frankfurt and home

Wow, the month has flown by literally and it's time for our adventure in Europe to end. We flew from Prague for a few days on the Greek island of Mykonos, then we headed back to Athens, on to Frankfurt then home.

It was a Voyager airmiles flight, we we're back on good old SAA for the flight back from Frankfurt to home

The shadow of the plane catching up to it as you land is always fascinating

Clear skyyes and the end of a beautiful month roaming Europe

Turbroprop to Serbia

I love a turboprop plane and our flight with Air Serbia during our month-long September vacation in Europe was awesome. We flew from Bulgaria via Serbia to Montenegro on two flights.

Munich to Sofia

I love airports and flying to different places, so my place is usually the window seat. Here we flew from Munich to Sofia, Bulgaria where we stayed for a few days in the ski resort (in summer) so did a little exploring around. This is my aviation blog so the holiday snaps I keep on my other blog - durbanview

Time flies when you're having fun

As the saying goes, time flies. It's been months since I updated my blog, mainly after we spent a month in Europe in September 2015 and everything took it's toll after we got back. So I'm looking back at the missing months and going to post some highlights here, starting with August, just before we left for Croatia and eastern Europe.

In my happy place

Durban's Stadium from ZDL

My wings

My weekend office

Dave with student Gordon

Instructor's renewal

I can't believe it's been a year since obtaining my National Flight Instructor rating and this morning I did my renewal skills test with Brad. I have not been that busy with students for the year as I run the admin for the whole flight school too, but I have notched up 45 hours instruction and a total of almost 500 flying hours in the short couple of years since getting my licence.

Brad and I in the skyye over Durban

Durban Stadium off the wing of my Sling ZDL

Pietermaritzburg jaunt

Durban Harbour in the background as I head to Pietermaritburg in ZDL to bring back my partner who has taken our flight school Sling for another 100 hour service - we've just topped 1100 hours in that plane now

The rolling green hills and sugar cane of KZN just passed the toll plaza - I didn't have to pay

The onboard computer EFIS logs the journey via Light Flight, Cato Ridge

Pietermaritzburg Airport - well worth a visit and fabulous coffee shop

Another of my famous Stadium pics 

In the flight school taildragger this time

Another of my famous selfies ha ha this time in FYA bringing the serviced aircraft home

Saturday flight lesson with my student Gordon who can now fly by himself!!