OH DEAR

[John Boucher]

Woohoo 100 posts with that one!

The runway I am referring to is Postmasburg FAPT.

I know of cattle on Schmitsdrift, Douglas and ticky turners on Griekwastad and here as well.

I wonder if daddy will piss in his pants when his kid's head gets chopped off because he was riding his Yamaha Raptor, without exhaust and did not hear the approaching aeroplane on finals!

BAD NAV

[Arnulf]

Arnulf wrote:

If my memory serves me right, it was 5Y-, being a Kenyan reg.

Ok, saw the full pic again. Memory did not serve me right, the reg is V5-EIS, which obviously is from Namibia. Looking at the runway, it could be Namutoni?

[Henni]

Original pic:

[Bennie Vorster]

The safest option is to carry on straight ahead.

Or just carry a 45 Magnum on take off's and landings.

[Bacardi]

Bennie, you are a mean man

[Gyronaut]

The whole picture... notice the corrugated iron lying next to the runway...

Oops, didnt realise it had already been posted. Dunno how to delet.. oh well, c'est la vie.

[skyvan]

It is a juvenile giraffe, so not the long and lanky creature we expect when we talk about giraffe!

Last year I flew to Nairobi, landing at the big airport (Jomo Kenyatta), as we were slowing down through 100kts, a buck (same size and type as an impala) ran across the runway in front of us. It came out of the long grass beside the runway so fast that we did not see it until it was on the runway, and by then it had seen us, and was accelerating away!

On the other side of the spectrum, there is a really cute little mongoose that runs around the taxi-ways at Port Elizabeth

[Arnulf]

skyvan wrote:

a buck (same size and type as an impala)

Most probably a Thompson's gazelle. There are quite a number of them roaming around at Jomo Kenyatta. Also just outside the boundary fence of the airport you often see giraffes.

Regards,
Arnulf