FTC Grand Central
Listen chaps,
Not everything you hear about SA is true, of course you have to be circumspect regarding safety - but no more so than you would in downtown Birmingham or Fulham etc..
Grand Central is a throughly modern airport with every amienty (except you can't do a JAA IR ratign there....at the mo.) It certainly beats wanging around the British skies from one grotty UK airfield to another and diving into the only greasy spoon cafe withyin say a ten mile radius from where you land and take-off (Compton Abbas excepted).
Even those of you who have a PPL or CPL you should experience 'hot & high' Jo'burg is already 5300' amsl and that's before you get going.
Rand versus Pound is great at the moment so everything - ESPECIALLY THE FLYING - is incredibky cheap to you Brits.
Stop knocking us - give us a try....you never know, you might actually like it.