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Your Flying Adventure in South Africa Enjoy the thrill of piloting your own plane around the Cape Peninsula or flying to one of the many national parks and game lodges. • Fly for a couple of hours or head off on a 5 day flying Odyssey. • Enjoy the freedom of uncluttered skies and fine weather as you discover new places and experience the wonders of Southern Africa. We will arrange everything for you, so whether you are a pilot just needing the plane and accommodation or whether you need a pilot as well as the plane, we will organise it all for you. For more information, email us • fly@bornair.com
Cape Peninsula • A flight around the Cape Peninsula is a must for any pilot visiting Cape Town. It is a stunningly beautiful flight, blending the sea, mountains and city. The flight is just over an hour if you go down to Cape Point, back along the Atlantic coast, over the CBD, Waterfront and even Robben Island, then returning to Cape Town International. If you are night rated, an excellent time to do a Peninsula trip is at dusk. Take off half an hour before sunset, so you are on the western side for the sunset and then return over the city as the city illuminates. Hermanus • An interesting and pleasant flight with a magical blend of the sea, mountains and orchards. Late August to early November is a good time to see whales, particularly as you get closer to Hermanus. The flight out, takes you along the coast and return over the mountains via Grabouw and Sir Lowry's Pass. Franschoek - Sir Lowry's Pass • This flight takes about an hour and takes you through some really magnificient scenery. Routing via Stellenbosch and then climbing to 2000ft (or more) to fly over Hellshoogte Pass between Simonsberg and the Jonkershoek mountains, before continuing over Boschendal and onto Franschoek. Then continue over the Theewaterskloof Dam and Viljoen's Pass to Grabouw and over Sir Lowry's Pass, Somerset West and back to Cape Town. Swellendam • A nice place to visit some 96 nm from Cape Town. There is an airfield and active flying club with gliding over weekends. The Bontebok National Park is right next to the airfield with camping facilities or there is excellent accommodation and restaurants in the town. Saldanha • Some 68 nm from Cape Town with a good runway and small flying club. It is an ideal location and very close to Langebaan where the "The Strandloper" open air seafood restaurant on the beach is situated. Kagga Kamma • A private nature reserve on the eastern side of the Cederberg about 88 nm from Cape Town or 2 hours flying time there and back. There is a restaurant and they have chalets for accommodation. The chalets and restaurant are situated next to an impressive canyon which offers some wonderful scenery. There is game viewing and there is also a small tribe of Bushmen living in the reserve. Lamberts Bay • This airfield is some 113 nm from Cape Town and another worthwhile trip. There is a hotel which offer excellent seafood and there are also two very good open air restaurants. Cape
Agulhas and Struisbaai • There is a tarred airstrip
at Struisbaai at Cape Agulhas the southernmost tip of Africa. The
Agulhas Guest House offers accommodation and adventure such as Hiking
Trail, Mountain Biking, Fishing, Ski-boat trips and Shipwreck Diving
Expeditions. There is also a wonderful restaurant if you are only
planning a day trip. Beaufort West • Take off from Cape Town and head inland for 2 hours to a small town in the heart of the Karoo known as Beaufort West. Here we will arrange a transfer from the airfield to your guest lodge where you can enjoy one or two nights experiencing the Karoo and the game in the area. In the morning you will be transferred back to the airfield to file the flight plan for Port Elizabeth, 2 hours flying away. At Port Elizabeth you can either stay in town and explore the surrounding area or you can be transferred directly to the Addo Elephant Park about 1 hour's drive from the airport. After a night or two in Port Elizabeth, you can set your course for Cape Town again, with a possible stop in Plettenberg Bay to perhaps soak up some sun on the beach. Either way you follow the coast line for a bit and hopefully will spot some whales, before flying over Sir Lowry's Pass and landing back at Cape Town. Augrabies Water Falls • Take off from Cape Town and head north to the Augrabies National Park some 332 nm from Cape Town. The accommodation and facilities in the park are good and the falls are well worth seeing with lots to see and do in the area. Kalahari Gemsbok National Park • This is an absolutely fantastic place to visit by air. The scenery is amazing, the game viewing is good and they have excellent facilities in the park. The park is some 483nm from Cape Town with refuelling in Upington. Even though the camp is in walking distance from the airfield and the airfield fenced in, you are transferred to the camp by vehicle as this is lion and cheetah territory. South
Africa round-trip • A good 6 to 8 day trip. Fly
from Cape Town up the coast routing via Hermanus, Witsand, Mossel
Bay and onto Knysna and Plettenberg Bay. The following day head
for Port Elizabeth routing via Tsitsikama Forest and Cape St Francis.
A stop in Port Elizabeth and overnight at the Addo Elephant Park
and then onto East London. From East London fly over the Transkei
and onto Durban. A day or two is spent exploring Durban and the
surrounding area and then onto the Kruger National Park where two
nights are spent. Head back to Cape Town via Johannesburg and Kimberley. For more information on Self Fly Holidays, email us • fly@bornair.com |
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