Advice: Best routing Europe - South Africa?
Years ago I enjoyed many hours of flying in the southern part of Africa (SA, Botswana, Zimbabwe). Trips down there where always in the back of big iron but this time it looks different: We intend to fly from Central Europe to Capetown with a Pilatus PC12 and back and looking at the load, we will be able to make approx. 1200NM + reserve (IFR).
Any advice please which routing or airports would be the best in regard of: 1. Safety (not being shoot down or killed on the ground), 2. Weather (planed window is March-April or November-December), 3. Services (airports with acceptable standard), 4. Good spots for a night stop (we plan with at least two overnights).
There is no need to fly the shortest possible route and for the adventure, we will try to do the trip without or the least amount of help from a service provider (which is available to us when needed). And for those questioning the pilots experience: A couple of thousands hours on jets trough Europe, some north atlantic and south america trips but just building experience in the first turboprop ever flown.
Any idea and advice for this (almost) retiree-project is appreciated, thank you.
Last edited by Takeoff53; 9th Oct 2012 at 08:35.