Flying Adventure: Southern Angola – Day 15 (FYRU – FBMN – FBTauPan): Today we are off to our last destination of this flying adventure. The Central Kalahari National Park in Botswana. It is our second attempt to spot the famous…
Flying Adventure: Southern Angola – Day 14 (FNCV – FYRU): We have to leave Angola today and start our journey back to the south. But before we depart, we visit the Cuito Cuanavale Memorial and Museum, which is situated next…
Flying Adventure: Southern Angola – Day 12 (FNMO – FNCV): We have a longer flight ahead of us today. Our destination is Cuito Cuanavale in south eastern Angola. We therefore top up our tanks with two jerry cans of Avgas…
Flying Adventure: Southern Angola – Day 11 (FNEsphinheira – FNMO): After 3 nights in the amazing Iona National Park, it is time to move on. Our stop over destination for today is Mocamedes, about 200 km north of the park,…
Flying Adventure: Southern Angola – Day 8 (FYEF – FYOA – FNGI – FNEspinheira): It is time to cross the Kunene river into Angola, to visit the Iona National Park. The Iona National Park has been on his bucket list…
Flying Adventure: Southern Angola – Day 6 (FYTF – FYEF): We are flying up to the most northerly point of Namibia. The Epupa falls on the Kunene river, which forms the border between Namibia and Angola. As we depart we…
Flying Adventure: Southern Angola – Day 5 (FYGK – FYTF): To get back on track, we have to move onward today. We fly further up north towards Angola, for a stop over at the Twyfelfontein Country Lodge. The Geluk airstrip…
Flying Adventure: Southern Angola – Day 4 (FAAugrabies – FAUP – FYKT – FYGK): We depart early on a very cold morning, but with clear blue skies. Our final destination for the day is the Le Mirage Desert Lodge in…
Flying Adventure: Southern Angola – Day 1 (FAWB – FAAugrabies): His passenger arrived in South Africa a day earlier than originally planned. We therefore decide to depart from Pretoria a day earlier, and use the extra day to visit the…
Finding travel and medical insurance cover for a flying adventure into Africa, or anywhere else for that matter, can be a real challenge. The key problem is that general aviation is excluded in most policy schedules. Over the years he…