There is only one 207 operated in Bots by 'Safari Air'. There are about 25 C206's bombing around. 7 C208 Grand Caravans, 4 Islanders, 5 C210's and a couple of Airvans which I'm sure youve seen in and around NZ. Everybody starts on the 206 with the hope of the caravan after a year for turbine time or the islanders for multi time. So forget the 207 and go for the 206 but first call a couple of the companies because they never required typeratings before. Don't waste your money if you don't have to. For the sake of learning where all the airfields, rivers, lagoons and reporting points are, You will have to spend 50 hours flying around the okavango with an experienced pilot sitting next to you anyway. So you get plenty experience in the 206 before you go alone.
Never met anyone who liked flying the 207. They give you the same motor but more space to carry more weight! Also a laminar flow wing on the 207 so not so easy to haul into the air as the trees approach. The 206 is an awesome machine in the bush, C210 much sweeter to fly but can get a little scarier in the height of summer. Caravans great if a little underpowered, Airvans cheaply built, time will tell if they can compare to the 206. Will there be airvans still flying in the bush in 20 years?
I realise some of this post belongs in wannabes, sorry.
