Refuelling planes

Just a happy snap from November as I refuelled flight school planes in the summer sun.

The Airplane Factory

 A few more pics from The Airplane Factory as we stopped by to take delivery of our new plane.

Taking delivery of our new Sling - 3rd Sling for the flight school

November was an exciting month for me and Durban Skyye flight School as Brands and I flew up to Johannesburg in our Sling FYA to take delivery of our new Sling Trainer for the flight school - ZDF.

Leaving Durban to fetch our new plane.

Dave takes delivery of the new Sling Trainer from Sean of The Airplane Factory

Dave and Brands who flew up to fetch the new Sling

Our maiden flight in the new Sling ZDF

A bit of bad weather en route

Keeping out of the thundershowers

View of the cockpit in the eye of the beholder

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