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African Bush Pilot
http://www.africanbushpilot.blogspot.com
I'm a Kiwi in my mid twenties who has flown light aircraft in Botswana and presantly in Tanzania for around about the last four years.
I regularly update on my flying adventures mixed together with the weekly trials and tribulations of living in East Africa
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Recent Posts
Flying out bush and a free lunch
Yesterday again bashed out another Dar es Salaam-Zanzibar-Dar es Salaam to pen into the logbook along with the hundreds of others. If I got just $1 for every time I flew over the Zanzibar channel I would be laughing all the way to the bank. I guess h...
The month before Christmas....flying as usual
I have no excuse for periods of blog neglect. I could blame the uncomfortable increase in humidity and temperature as we approach the hottest months of the year. After a long day sweating it out in a cockpit I get home and all I want is a ice cold be...
Another week in East Africa
You must check out this video that a colleague of mine found on You tube.A passenger has filmed this Tanzanian pilot giving his pre-flight safety briefing...I gather from the video he was in a hurry on this particular day.It has been one of those wee...
Bush Pilot highs and lows
Well the last week has been incredibly interesting for me....back flying the Cessna 206 again, sailing around Dar es Salaam's tropical reefs and the biggest surprise of all, a engine failure in a Cessna Caravan (Yes I had a PT6 die on me) will elabor...
Pilots life in Dar es Salaam
As a follow up to my October 30 post 'Maun Life' I have put together a collection of pictures that I hope can give you the reader a mental picture of what life is like here in the city of Dar es Salaam on the tropical East African coast.This shot is ...
Bush flying in the African wet seasons
This picture was taken by a colleage of mine Aaron Cawsey last week of a Cessna Caravan departing Msembe airstrip in the Ruaha national park. Apart from being a great angled shot, I guess it is almost free advertising for Coastal Aviation.At this tim...
