My November 2006 tour of duty:- In West Africa

The Farmington River at Roberts Field (The runway is 500m West of the River)

As a Pilot for a Johannesburg based Airline - Safair this is what we do from time to time (every 2 months) Right now I am on a 18 day tour to Monrovia - Liberia, flying a Boeing 727-200 (ZS-NZV) on a United Nations contract, mainly between Roberts Field near Monrovia in Liberia and Kotoka International Airport In Accra Ghana.

During this tour we had plenty of free time to go to the beach, play squash etc. The squash courts are in the middle of town behind a filling station. Two concrete floors and one painted wood , the lights and fans work off a diesel generator . Pretty Primitive but very sociable.
We are 8 crew members and should be back in South Africa on the 21st of November, we are leaving for Accra on Sunday and laying over at the Labadi Beach Hotel until Monday evening.

Working with us here are some huge helicopters and the well known Russian freighters

The crew members with me on this tour is Chris Rothman (First Officer) Hans Terblanche (Flight Engineer) Bishen Badal (Loadmaster) Lucia Spinola (In Charge Flight Attendant) Melany Cooper, Carmen Giliomee and Lee-Anne Moss (Cabin Crew)

These guys are not my crewmembers, just curious onlookers they dont see grey hair like this often in these parts of Africa

Rhino Rally in Harrismith 27 Oct 2006 and pics of other Bike trips

On Friday 27 Oct we travelled down to Harrismith from Kosmos 370 km on the Suzuki Intruder 800 to the Rhino on the banks of the Wilge River in the Orange Free State Province

Here we are refuelling at a town called Villiers - halfway.

We met up with Alta Wessel Danny Kobus Frans Anneri en ...
















Redge Jelliman and a few friends



We have travelled extensively in various parts of South Africa on the Suziki Intruder motorbike and the following is a few places we have been to before:-

On Chapmans peak Drive near Cape Town the road from Houtbay to Kommetjie



Knysna Waterfront on the Garden Route from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth.

In Front of the Lord Milner Hotel in Matjiesfontein, a small Railway Station in the Karoo on the Main Road from Cape Town to Johannesburg

On the old bridge over the Orange River on way to Colesburg for a Bike Rally (Ulysees) in May o6

Johan Jr is with me, he accompanied me on this trip.

My Immediate Family

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Juanita is an Air Hostess

on a Global Express Aircraft based in Lanseria
we have been married for 26 years








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Johan Junior Is a Commercial Pilot with Bay Air
in Windhoek - Namibia and will soon be flying a
Beechcraft King Air 1900 as a Co- Pilot






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Louis, above is a Commercial Pilot working for
Nyassa Air Taxi in Blantyre Malawi and most
his flying is to game lodges in Zambia Tanzania
Mozambique and Likoma island on Lake Malawi.

He flies mainly a Beechcraft Baron but also a
Cherokee Six and a Piper Seneca.

Louis is at the moment in discussions with a company that is operating a Jetstream 31 in Zimbabwe as a flying Ambulance, if these are succesful he might start flying there in December