Pretty much one of the bast places to fly in africa. They've revamped the Lusaka ILS and Ndola VOR, not sure on the rest but all round pretty well controlled airspace.
Two major swamp areas to avoid if you flying piston/SE turbine.
Life style outside of Lusaka is pretty much what it would have been in a small town grwoing up in SA about 15 years ago; you can get everything you need however you will go to about 3 shops to find it. Lusaka is modernized so no hassels there.
It rains pracitcally non stop for Jan and Feb, about 1.4m - 1.5m of rain falls over the country per year. Trust me that's a lot of rain.
Power has been and probably will continue ot be a huge issue for a while, Make sure you cost in a heavy duty well maintained Generator for when the power goes out, it happens daily.
Fuel prices are shocking, they are close to $2 a litre so be prepared, it's even more than SA.
Aircons are a must, super hot up here...
A couple of tips on Malaria, they say if you alkalize your diet the parasite can't survive so your chances of falling prey to malaria drops, I haven't tried it yet but when you get Malaria you'll wish you had. It's remedied as above by either Arinate, Co-Arinate, Coartem, Halfan. If you suspect you have malaria then it's best to pop the meds, depending on the strain you could be a goner in a few days to a few weeks, always be on the safe side. Something no-one ever tells you, if you get malaria follow up the course of meds with an anitbiotic, **** stuff for sure but it kills the parasites/eggs in the liver that the malaria meds don't get. This will stop you form having serious and repetative attacks. NB!!!
People are great, cops can be difficult especially with expats. Ps, don't run anyone over, you go to jail even if it's not your fault so I hear...they drive like tomorrow is another day, around 40km/hr in the provincial cities.
If you are setting up an aircraft, it pays to go see the director of DCA, mr Kabalika and get all the gen you can. The Zambian License is 2 exams, 1 you have to pass with 75%, the other 100%. At least that's how it was a few years ago. They were also in the process on getting their house in order to be fully ICAO compliant to date, not sure on the progress.
Zam Beef is one of the best around, great porterhouse steaks as well.
Anyway, if the cash is good, the lifestyle here will be great. Enjoy the new surroundings. Happy landings.
P.S, SAA and airlink fly in twice a day to Lusaka and Ndola, if you got buddies flying there you'll be able to get the odd luxuary you won't find in Zambia.