Lapsed PPL...

[Guest Hippo]

Hi from Angola (that's the country in Africa, not the Louisiana State Penitentiary)

 

 

[mnewbery]

Rusty pilot, not lapsed PPL. You can do it again if you really want to.

 

Alternatively, watch and laugh along with the rest of us

 

 

[Head in the clouds]

Hi Hippo,

 

Welcome.

 

Kwanza (Cuanza?), does that put you on the southern outskirts of Luanda? Or further down towards Benguela?

 

I spent 17 years in Zim before it was Zim and a little time in SA.

 

I think the west coast would be fascinating flying country with a good bush plane.

 

Tell us more ...

 

 

[Guest Hippo]

Hi Hippo,Welcome.

 

Kwanza (Cuanza?), does that put you on the southern outskirts of Luanda? Or further down towards Benguela?

 

I spent 17 years in Zim before it was Zim and a little time in SA.

 

I think the west coast would be fascinating flying country with a good bush plane.

 

Tell us more ...

[Guest Hippo]

From the centre of Luanda I am at km 73. If you google earth luanda, track south along the coast to the river Kwanza and see the bridge, that's where I am. I personally have not had my hands on the controls of anything here but I have done an awful lot of travelling in light aircraft around the country. But most exciting was during the war riding in 727's that came in over the airstrips very high, did a wing over and then a very tight spiral down to a very short final in order to avoid the anti-aircraft missile fire.

 

The owner of the Mangais Golf Resort (I live a km from that) is talking about putting a grass strip in which, presumably, means he thinks private flying might, er, take off here which resparked my interest in perhaps getting a STOL kit. The question of an affordable engine that would run on the fuel we have here brought me to the thread on this site about the 120/200 hp turbo prop engine of Mr Vulcan.