being helped to fix a puncture (puncha in swahili, just read it loud it and you’ll hear the similarity)
flying that lovely Chieftain PA31. One engine stopped, the propeller feathered, the Kilimajaro on the horizon.
same engine with a superb oil leak.
Caravan landing in lake Manyara. Some little hills out there, pilots to be cautious in bad weather.
stupid wildebeest (gnou) crossing in front of us. Cherry on the cake for this image: the hot-air balloon in the background.
a F406 being fixed again after a belly landing. Some pilots or companies are regular with this kind of mishap. Some planes have even crashed twice…and are back in the air.
Serengeti South airstrip,no comment.
Grumeti, a Twin Otter landing, birds in the tree, completely used to it.
2007 and 2008, the volcano Lengai was seriously active with smoke and ashes sometimes up to 50000ft, 15km high. It looked like a Hiroshima mushroom. Here is ash deposit on my aircraft. Often the ash was invisible in the air though. 3 turbine engines died in different companies because of ash intakes. It happened one of these engines agonized on me. Luckily I could finish the flight, but I didn’t like the feeling to see the engine temperature in the red and fly on reduced power…
Seronera in the Serengeti after a storm. Soaked airstrip.
storm on mount Meru.
look at that passenger, we were taking a picture of each other.
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