Gyro Squadron 196 - Cape Town to Wild Coast

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Gyro Squadron 196 - Cape Town to Wild Coast

Postby Gyronaut » Tue Apr 29, 2008 4:07 pm

Coyote and others have been hassling me to put up some pictures of our trip.

While Learjet will do a professional job, I am going to post some that I have in the meantime.

Credit to Patrick Cob our photographer who took most of the amazing pics (the blurry/fuzzy ones are mine). Thanks to Manfred Dietstein and Patrick for their able groundcrew work.

We took off from Fisantekraal on Monday morning, 21 April in perfect weather. Flew via Franshoek to Riviersonderend and then refuelled from auxilliaries at Swellendam. Then down the Bree river to Stillbaai and routed coastwise to Mosselbay for a refuel. Then continued coastwise to Plettenberg Bay. I destroyed my prerotator wheel and with able assistance from our resident rocket scientists was able to get to Progress in PE the next day where Callie (Crashtestdummy) kindly brought me his spare. From there we continued coastwise to Port Alfred where I mistook taxiway Delta for runway 10 :oops:

The next day we flew past East London, stopped at Kei Mouth and then on to The Haven where the runway surprised us with its viscious slope.

Spent an awesome two days flying around there and to Port St Johns before heading back to Bisho, then on to Hitgeheim game lodge near Addo. The food was great. The following day we routed via Willowmore and Oudshoorn for Assegaaybosch lodge. Had some awesome Karoo flying before leaving for Montague, Robertson for lunch and then followed the Bree river all the way up to Tulbach. Paul still wanted to go on to Piketberg but we were missing our softnesses so headed back to FAFK.

AWESOME TRIP!!

Len
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Lots of coastline
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Gyro Squadron 196. L to R Paul Ackerman, Dave Lehr (Learjet), Len Klopper (Jetranger), Jonathan Mylrae (Green Leader)
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Re: Gyro Squadron 196 - Cape Town to Wild Coast

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Re: Gyro Squadron 196 - Cape Town to Wild Coast

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Re: Gyro Squadron 196 - Cape Town to Wild Coast

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The end of Port St Johns runway, 1500ft sheer cliff... yeeeehaaaaaa!
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DIO with Jonathan and Patrick
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Re: Gyro Squadron 196 - Cape Town to Wild Coast

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Bisho international airport! Deserted, except for one flying bergie
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Our fearless 'Green Leader'
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Waiting for fuel amongst the cow dung, Port St Johns
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Re: Gyro Squadron 196 - Cape Town to Wild Coast

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Bisho International... Fire Engine and all!
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Learjet in luxury... flying is so hard!
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NEVER drink within 8 meters of the aircraft!
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Assegaaybosch... slumming it
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Manfred Dietstein, our able groundcrew assisting Paul to refuel
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See!? Never within 8 meters of the aircraft
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Taxiing out at Plettenberg Bay
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Paul, Magni M22, ZU-DLS
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Progress Air School, PE
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More cattle on the beach than anything/anyone else in the Transkei
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Paradise!!
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Port St Johns airfield... cliffhanger
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Typical scenery behind Dave in FTA
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Len, Sycamore Eagle, ZU-EDN
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Hole in the Wall & 2 of the 4 gyro's
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