SA Flyer Magazine - November 2022

Go Unlimited with Magzter GOLD

Read SA Flyer Magazine along with 8,500+ other magazines & newspapers with just one subscription View catalog

1 Month $9.99

1 Year$99.99

$8/month

(OR)

Subscribe only to SA Flyer Magazine

Gift SA Flyer Magazine

7-Day No Questions
Asked Refund Policy

ⓘ

Digital Subscription
Instant Access

ⓘ

Verified Secure
Payment

ⓘ

In this issue

SA Flyer Magazine

CORSIA, SAF & Poppy Mania

Who wudda thought it? According to ICAO, the biggest crisis facing the airline industry today is not the sky-high price of fuel or the problems of actually getting it to the airports when gas pipelines are being blown up and tankers get caught in storms.

6 mins

REVISITING A PC-12 CRASH

Sometimes it's not the speed that breaks aeroplanes, it's the slowing down.

6 mins

SHORT FINALS

Inthe October 2018 edition of SAFlyer, regular readers of the magazine would have noticed a new Heli Ops” column appear on page 46. In that first column, introduced myself, The Silver Fox,” as well as several themes that would build on as the magazine moved from its printed version, through a Covid-19 induced lockdown, to where it is now, online.

3 mins

AIRLITE PRO

It’s been a while coming but finally we have a handheld radio scanner with GPS.

1 min

FROM THE WAODANIS To WEAPONS WAR.

What have a missionary with a bucket and a fisherman with a Bonanza, got to do with the future of military drone technology?

10 mins

ERCO ERCOUPE A WONDERFUL LITTLE PLANE!

With its low wing, tricycle gear and safe car-like handling, the Ercoupe was a genuinely revolutionary aircraft.

10+ mins

ZS-VCE - A PERSONAL HISTORY

In 1949 an Ercoupe, the 415-E model, with the serial number 4975 was born. I'm not exactly sure how she got into South Africa, but she started her life as ZS-BSJ as early as 1950. As with all Ercoupes of the time, she had no rudder pedals and was fitted with the Continental C-85 85 hp) engine.

7 mins

CESSNA 206 CFIT

AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT REPORT

6 mins

SEPTEMBER 2022: This month, although not quite as exciting as last month, nevertheless contains a few delicious items.

FIRST OF ALL, there is an Embraer 145 added to the register which was seen operating in Russia with her South African registration, ZS-ABB, applied in the last month. Unfortunately, nobody that I know has been able to photograph her as yet. This Embraer takes up the former registration of an Avro Avion which was written off in 1947.

2 mins

TECNAM’S P2012 STOL

Tecnam has introduced the new P2012 STOL dedicated to Short Take Off and Landing (STOL) operations.

1 min

PARAMOUNT QUALIFIES ENGINEERS

Addressing the pending skills shortage, Paramount Aerospace Systems PAS), has qualified fifteen students as aircraft technicians and engineers.

1 min

AVIATION COMPANY PROFILES GUIDE 2023

AVIATION COMPANY PROFILES GUIDE

3 mins

FLYING FOR FREEDOM

AS THE FOUNDER and driving force behind his registered and approved non-profit organisation, Flying For Freedom SA (FFFSA), Tokkie Botes has donated over 1,000 hours of flying in his Bell 206 to the service of conservation in Southern Africa.

1 min

HUGH’S FIRST FLIGHT EVER

Some of my friends say that am a slow reader and a late developer. Maybe they are right, but I find that when I read something, I tend to remember it better than some of the high-speed readers of my acquaintance do, and when, a bit later in life than some of my contemporaries, I spot some new enthusiasm I tend to fall for it, big time.

5 mins

WHY DO WE NEED FIGHTER AIRCRAFT?

With the South African Air Force’s Gripen fleet steadily returning to operational status after a year-long grounding as a result of budget cuts and delays in negotiating anew supportcontract, there were once again claims by politicians, journalists, civil society, and members of the public that the country has no need for fighter aircraft at all.

4 mins

FLYING A NAVION RANGEMASTER FROM LAGOS TO NAIROBI

Laura McDermid continues her stories of Iris McCallum’s flying exploits.

5 mins

THE COVID ADVENTURE CONTINUES - HYENAS OF THE LIMPOPO

Smuggling of cigarettes, contraband, vehicles, humans and equipment to and from Zimbabwe into South Africa through illegal crossing points along the Limpopo River has become a normal daily business, but increased dramatically from the beginning of April 2020 when South African lockdown regulations banned cigarette sales.

3 mins

FACE TO FACE JAMES GELDENHUYS

Nedbank’s Aircraft Finance head James Geldenhuys answers Guy Leitch’s questions about the state of post Covid aviation finance in Africa.

4 mins

BOEING MAX 7’S APPROVAL DELAYED

The FAA is asking more questions about Boeing’s 737 Max 7 aircraft, increasing the likelihood that the company will be unable to complete the certification process by late December and have to undertake a costly redesign.