WOW what an adventure
First of all thank you to everyone who made this trip happen
I can now understand why Demon calls this "the very best part of SA to fly in "
The trip down was super smooth and very scenic . My route went from Eagles Creek to Circus (via the Dome and Orlando) where I met Tobi in his Cheetah. From there we routed to Grootdraai (close to Villiers) and waited for Ian W , Ian L and Mark.
Due to the bad runway Ian L unfortunately damaged his nose wheel so we left the 2 Ian's there and routed Aerofarm (next door to Harrismith)
At Aerofarm we were greeted by Bert in his Cheetah and Nathan in his Aquilla and Johan in Thunderbird. Unfortunatly Johan also had some damage on his Thunderbird and opted to fly pax with Mark in the Foxbat.
The flight from Aerofarm to Dragons Peak was awesome
I must say landing at Dragons Peak was a little intimidating for me
First you need to join at 6000ft and do your downwind leg over a ridge then turn base to finals very short dropping down to land at 4000ft, keep in mind when on finals you have the ridge on your right and the main buildings on the left - dive over trees , swing left to mis the tree on your right on the ridge swing right and clear the trees on the threshold of 24 then land on what looks like a very short runway
After the 2nd or so landing it was not so bad anymore as all came natural
The flights in and around the Berg was 100% and very calming - we truly are blessed
My flight back was smooth up to Orlando and the Northern ridge where it was bumpy as hell
clearing the ridge it was smooth all the way home again
My flight time was 3:20 to do the 336nm and we had a lekker tailwind
at some stages I was doing 105mph GS
I have a lot of editing to do so hopefully the video will be up before the weekend
In the meantime here a a couple of pics
JHB City by
TribalCroc, on Flickr
Towers south of Circus by
TribalCroc, on Flickr
Done
