From the African bush into European skies

Bush&Lake Air Charters in Lilongwe, Malawi is looking for a pilot. Requirements: Commercial license. A minimum of 500 hours. And logged hours on CT206 and PA32-300 Email CV's to info@bla.mw or claudia@bla.mw About the company: http://www.bla.mw/ UPDATE: B&LA is a small company with a Cherokee 6 and a beautiful new 206 (as far as I know G1000). The boss is a really really nice lady. She cares and looks after her pilots. She provides a house and a car too. Pay is somewhere around

This Skeleton Coast Safaris Cessna 210 landed on the sandy beach somewhere at Conception Bay, on the Namibian Diamond Coast. If I'm not wrong, and knowing the pilot I'd bet on a 100$ that I'm not,they just had a nice picnic. I'll share with you as well the adviceI got from the wise on soft field takeoffs: "350 meters of softish sand, only works because of the constant wind. Begin the roll with a clean wing and low power to save the prop, gently feed in the oomph as the speed builds while

Aborting takeoff On takeoff roll 70% of flying speed should be reached at 50% of the length of the runway or the takeoff should be rejected. The reason: acceleration is not linear. Crosswind component Not as tricky as most of the pilots think. If wind is 15 degrees to the runway, the crosswind component is 25% of the wind velocity (at 10 kts wind the cross component is 2,5 kts). If the wind is at 30 degrees, the crosswind is 50% wind speed (10 kts wind 5 kts component). If the wind has a 45-degree

A simple bush rule Airplanes get old, pilots get tired, runways are not always in best shape out there, things not always work the way we planned. Here comes the first and probably most handy little rule: even when you calculated and planned everything meticulously you should allow for at least a 20% safety margin. Just in case. If required parameters are not allowing for this safety margin you better start thinking how you could improve performance (throw out some luggage, passengers, fuel, change

Waking up this morning and seeing that Malev (the Hungarian Airlines) went down was saddening. A piece (or maybe The Piece) of Hungarian aviation history disappeared. Ju52 at Budaörs airfield in the 30's Maszovlet Li-2 (Soviet copy of the DC3) at the beginning of the 50's. Later MASZOVLET became Magyar Légiforgalmi Társaság (Hungarian Airlines) A Malév Li-2 at Ferihegyi Airport Malév Il-18, with the most beautyful paint scheme that the airline carried Tu134 A MALÉV TU-154 in the