Calling BOTSWANA PILOTS
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Calling BOTSWANA PILOTS
Hi All.
After posting earlier on the NZ/AUS forum I have decided to come on here.
In July I will have completed an AUS/NZ CPL with Multi Engine IR.
After doing some research, I'm thinking about heading to Botswana.
Not only will it be a great place to get some flying hours, but it will be a cool place to experience and learn some life lessons.
I am using this 'thread' by trying to get in contact with any current or former pilots working out of Maun in Bostwana. I'm wanting to have the chance (if possible) to set up a skype meeting or email if possible to ask a few questions and get some ideas.
Any ideas, comments or ANYTHING please post below or private message me.
Thanks a lot
After posting earlier on the NZ/AUS forum I have decided to come on here.
In July I will have completed an AUS/NZ CPL with Multi Engine IR.
After doing some research, I'm thinking about heading to Botswana.
Not only will it be a great place to get some flying hours, but it will be a cool place to experience and learn some life lessons.
I am using this 'thread' by trying to get in contact with any current or former pilots working out of Maun in Bostwana. I'm wanting to have the chance (if possible) to set up a skype meeting or email if possible to ask a few questions and get some ideas.
Any ideas, comments or ANYTHING please post below or private message me.
Thanks a lot
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MASSIVE amount of information on this forum already,
search 'MAUN', by LilFlyBoy
The thread was started a couple years ago, but is very accurate, and very very very very very little has changed.
search 'MAUN', by LilFlyBoy
The thread was started a couple years ago, but is very accurate, and very very very very very little has changed.
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Year to year the best 'camp' changes, but that's about the only thing that changes.
(of course any money figures should be adjusted 5-10% per year for inflation)
(of course any money figures should be adjusted 5-10% per year for inflation)
Está servira para distraerle.
There's nothing cool about Maun at all at any time and the only piece of life's lessons you'll learn is patience as you drive out into the desert every weekend to water your pet piece of grass and watch it wither and die.
At long last the Botswana government are making it harder for overseas pilots to enter the country and to work legally. You might as well go up to A Town Called Alice and cavort merrily with the yokels there as they spray paint kangaroos for the coming hunting season from their ancient Pawnees. That's the way to find real flying experience. Any young muppet can crash an aeroplane into the swamps but it takes a decent and controlled sort of aviator to fly the outback with a 30.06 and a 9mm for company as the Taipans tittilate his toenails slithering over the rudder pedals.
Drop Barry Jackson a line? He's the President of the Australian Pilots Association. You might find him a little strange to begin with though because he does seem to think that Qantas can rise from the ashes and become a great airline again. His use of the word again in that context is as optimistic about the future as it is delusional about the past.
If you don't fancy Oz then Milford Sound glacier flying requires considerable skill and there are some extremely attractive female tourists who seem bent and determined at getting a glimpse of the abominable snowman even though they're on the wrong continent. More self delusion in a double silk lined sleeping bag perhaps?
Avoid Africa, it's a civilised little continent south of the Congo River and not fit at all for an educated and well brought up antipodean.
At long last the Botswana government are making it harder for overseas pilots to enter the country and to work legally. You might as well go up to A Town Called Alice and cavort merrily with the yokels there as they spray paint kangaroos for the coming hunting season from their ancient Pawnees. That's the way to find real flying experience. Any young muppet can crash an aeroplane into the swamps but it takes a decent and controlled sort of aviator to fly the outback with a 30.06 and a 9mm for company as the Taipans tittilate his toenails slithering over the rudder pedals.
Drop Barry Jackson a line? He's the President of the Australian Pilots Association. You might find him a little strange to begin with though because he does seem to think that Qantas can rise from the ashes and become a great airline again. His use of the word again in that context is as optimistic about the future as it is delusional about the past.
If you don't fancy Oz then Milford Sound glacier flying requires considerable skill and there are some extremely attractive female tourists who seem bent and determined at getting a glimpse of the abominable snowman even though they're on the wrong continent. More self delusion in a double silk lined sleeping bag perhaps?
Avoid Africa, it's a civilised little continent south of the Congo River and not fit at all for an educated and well brought up antipodean.
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If you don't have at least 500 hours or already have a CAAB CPL then you going to struggle. You can only 'validate' your current licence until you have 500 hours flying in Botswana. Only then can you actually get a conversion to a Botswana licence. This was mentioned on another forum and confirmed by a mate of mine who is working there to be something to that effect. Anybody else confirm?
Personally, I think you are wasting your time. It's becoming almost impossible to break into the Southern African regions: Botswana, Namibia, South Africa etc etc. Hell there's even a surplus of pilots in the DRC looking for work! Not to mention Tanzania...need I carry on?
Good luck! After all you never know and it does change almost daily!
Personally, I think you are wasting your time. It's becoming almost impossible to break into the Southern African regions: Botswana, Namibia, South Africa etc etc. Hell there's even a surplus of pilots in the DRC looking for work! Not to mention Tanzania...need I carry on?
Good luck! After all you never know and it does change almost daily!
