Botswana air tour

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Botswana air tour

Postby avgas » Sun Apr 13, 2008 7:45 pm

I am planning a trip.
Pilansberg clear customs outbound
Gaborone into Botswana
First night Nata
Flying the makgadigadi Salt pans.
Next night at Planet Boabab Gweta.
Then into the swamps.
Then down on the western side of the Central Kalahari
All in all a 10 day trip.
Anything that can cruise between 60 and 90mph welcome.
Has to be able to land on fairly rough strips.
Cheetah, Bushbaby and trike types will be fine,
Pm me for further details
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Postby RV4ker (RIP) » Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:01 am

Dates?
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Postby avgas » Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:40 am

Planning for late july early August whatever suits best.
If you are interested give preferred dates
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Postby RV4ker (RIP) » Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:26 am

Want to do the Delta, but Jul/Aug this year no good for me. Maybe next year.. :wink:
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Re: Botswana air tour

Postby Rudix » Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:39 am

avgas wrote:I am planning a trip.
Pilansberg clear customs outbound
Gaborone into Botswana
First night Nata
Flying the makgadigadi Salt pans.
Next night at Planet Boabab Gweta.
Then into the swamps.
Then down on the western side of the Central Kalahari
All in all a 10 day trip.
Anything that can cruise between 60 and 90mph welcome.
Has to be able to land on fairly rough strips.
Cheetah, Bushbaby and trike types will be fine,
Pm me for further details
Sounds great ! I would be interested, July/August is also good.

Please keep us posted !

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Postby old no 7 » Mon Apr 14, 2008 7:03 pm

I'm hoping to have my Gyro licence by mid May.
Would you guys be prepared to take a newbie gyronut (sic) with you?
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Postby Nkwazi » Mon Apr 14, 2008 7:12 pm

Be careful the winds in those areas that time of the year - they can get quite strong.

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Postby avgas » Tue Apr 15, 2008 11:34 am

Anyone with any flying machine cofiguration that is legal will be welcome.
Copy the winds! :wink:
During that time it is fairly cool and flying is great.
I will keep all posted
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Re: Botswana air tour

Postby Maybe » Fri May 16, 2008 7:37 am

Hi,

Will there be ground support or will we land at places where fuel is available?
Where will we stay? B&B, or camp in tents where we land?
What would the maximum distance be between fuelling points?
Is there a rough figure of the costs for the trip. (example trike, 2up, burning 15liters an hour @55Mph as well as accommodation etc).
Is there a special permit neccessary for the aircrafts to enter Botswana?

Is sounds like a GREAT trip. Please supply as much info as possible!! This can become VERY exciting.

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Re: Botswana air tour

Postby reitz2pa » Fri May 16, 2008 9:19 pm

Hi there,

sounds great would also be interested if i can make the dates.Also a new pilot flying a raptor 582.

Keep us posted with the planning and the dates please if i can tag along.

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Re: Botswana air tour

Postby Hub-Bar » Wed May 21, 2008 6:22 am

Hi guys,

Just returned from Bots on a similar trip - one Bantam & one Jabiru. Was great, just one snag - radios! At Maun the approach frequency is 126.0 : no problem, but Tower @ 118.7 Big problem! Very bad tower coms and understandably very agitated ATCs and shaken up pilots. The Bantam flies out of Fly-Inn and the Jabi out of Grand Central and a radio problem has never been experienced before on either. We now realise that the antennas on both ac is fine in the middle region of the frequency band, but very bad at the edges of the band eg 118.7Mhz. At home territory all the frquencies in use are clustered around the midpoint (for now obvious reasons) and therefore we were blissfully unaware. Maun ATC declined our request for departure until the radios were sorted - frustrating, but understandably so. Fortunately we are both electronics guys and after 3,5 h of fiddeling we were allowed to file flightplans for departure. Note that at Maun there are no elecronics guys (they are flown in from JHB). The simple rod antenna found on most microlights are just not good enough for the job. We are now fitting both ac with proper wideband antennas as found on the bigger ac. Final note : If your radio/intercom is not 100% sorted & checked out - stay home. It is not a nice experience to fly into ATC with crappy coms - It would also be easy for BCA to in future decline flight clearance to microlights if the radio thing persists being a problem to their ATC- specialy at Maun.
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Re: Botswana air tour

Postby avgas » Wed May 21, 2008 11:37 am

That would have been a serious problem. They are very serious about coms.
Thanks for the info
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