A few years ago I saw the SAPOL 402 pull of an interesting landing. Remote airfield, blackhole approach, 30-40 mins after last light, landing towards the east, no moon out into an unlit strip. The locals managed to shine the head lights of a troopie down the strip just as he was flaring. Dont know if that would have helped or made it worse at that point. It seemed to have a stronger landing light than normal, but it was pretty black.
I asked the driver about it but was pretty quickly dismissed. I was driving a 172 at that point, maybe its a thing about 172's they have?
Are SAPOL pilots like the road police, able to get some flexibility on regs/rules due opertional reasons?
Bulla