To RBaron
I suppose you can say flying in Africa is also quite tough, few jobs, low pay, difficult charter companies, you know, fly or else.
I am based in Windhoek, Namibia, on the South West coast of Africa between South Africa and Angola. We mostly fly within Namibia but also fly to Angola(Very difficult,Wx, Nav, Language), Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Most popular aircaft in Namibia is still the single engined C210 but the Caravan is becoming more and more of a viable oftion.
The C206 is very popular in Bots and anything that can cruise at 150Kts and takeoff in less than 1000m, with 6 seats or more and which is not to expensive to operate can be used in the Southern Africa area. Comparitively pilots are very poorly paid but the Wx and trafic is most of the time very easy. Thus low time pilots and fresh coms find this a suitable training and preperation phase.