The African Bush Pilot

Author : Cecil Mullins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578106915
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The African-Bush Pilot written by Cecil Mullins and published by . This book was released on 2012-03-25 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The African-Bush Pilot The debut autobiography by Cecil Mullins is an auspicious success from the very first page to the last. He tells the breathtaking odyssey of his life from a small town Southwest Virginia boy to a well known, highly regarded pilot who flies the aircraft he dreamt of as a young man. His writing style is fast paced, graphic and often gritty with an occasional side bar of humor and ribald commentary about the fairer sex he encounters during his highly charged, adventurous career as a "Bush Pilot" and his unpredictable forays with non-scheduled airlines. The book is a must read. The reader will feel as if he is in the cockpit with the "Bush Pilot" as the fights the elements, warfare, mechanical and equipment problems and violent weather. It is a great book...you will not want to put it down. Go out and get a copy and experience the thrill of what you find as you turn the next page...and the next. Reaching the pinnacle of his career by surviving unbelievable mechanical failures and mishaps, violent weather, flying into African civil wars and revolutions in the dead of night to evade missiles and gunfire were but a part of the life he chose to live. He survived and prospered by his intellect, courage and unparalleled skill as a top flight mechanic, flight engineer, co-pilot and finally pilot and Captain of his own craft.

Author : David HUNT
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Bush Pilot written by David HUNT and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short story, third in the series of African Bush Pilot, candidly describing the author's experiences and emotions, whilst performing emergency medivac flights in adverse and challenging conditions. A true narrative of a time when navigation aids were practically non-existent and poorly equipped light aircraft were the norm. An exciting read, particularly for pilots and flying enthusiasts, set in the rugged and vast landscape of a still largely uncharted part of Africa.

Author : Barbara L. Feader
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781401027896
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Self-Flying the African Bush written by Barbara L. Feader and published by . This book was released on 2002-03-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Always desiring to take the road least traveled, in 1998 I made plans through Smith Travel in Easton, Maryland to take one very special road and explore game preserves in South and East Africa. But the roads I travel are between 3,000 and 9,000 feet above mean sea level in the left seat of a single engine airplane. And that was how I wanted to do my exploring in South and East Africa. Mr. George Sellers, a travel agent with Smith Travel at the time, was given the task of working out my travel plans. He chose Mike Johnson and Andrew Kerrich who operate Ubuntu Safaris in Johannesburg, South Africa to customize my safari, and gave them the particulars of what they should do. They were to lease a single engine airplane for me to fly beginning in late July and lasting through August, 1998, and employ someone to validate my U. S. pilot license, qualifying me to fly a plane of African Registry. A myriad of other requests were made for them to accomplish, including a trip to visit a falconer on his farm in Jacobsdal, in the Orange Free State, for an overnight stay, a hot-air balloon flight over the Serengeti with a champagne breakfast in the middle of the desert, a two hour elephant ride in the wilds of Zimbabwe, and a flight over the Indian Ocean to the Spice Island of Zanzibar. They were to work out the details of what visa's I would need to visit game preserves in up to 10 countries in South and East Africa, and figure the cost of everything for me to pre-pay before leaving the U. S. to guard against any chance of unexpected surprises while there. The first obstacle confronting me was my age. My seventy-ninth birthday loomed less than four months away, and to qualify for insurance on the plane they leased for me, it would be necessary for me to have a co-pilot accompany me on my entire journey. I authorized them to find me a co-pilot and they engaged Ms. Kym Morton, a consultant with Ubuntu on safaris, a fifteen year veteran African bush pilot, and a grade II instructor. She agreed to validate my U.S. pilot license, and accompany me on my month long safari. To my delight, she was a member of International Women Pilots, (more prominently known as The Ninety-Nines), the same as I. Through the expertise of the people at Smith Travel, everything went along smoothly, and on the morning of July 27, I boarded my flight to New York to connect with the South African Airline for a seventeen hour flight to Johannesburg, South Africa, landing at 3:00 PM on July 28, 1998. After going through immigration, I wheeled a cart with my belongings out to the airport lobby, where I saw two handsome fellows with a large sign that read BARBARA FEADER. Assuming the obvious, I wheeled happily over to where they waited, and was soon seated in the back of their car being whisked to Lanseria Airport, just outside Johannesburg, while Mike briefed me on what plans had been made for the evening, and to meet my co-pilot, Kym, and look over the plane she had reserved for me. The plane was a high-wing Cessna Skylane 182RG similar to the one I had flown in Kalispel, Montana to take a mountain flying course in 1975, and one I had flown on safari in Australia in July and August 1978. The only difference was, it was a later model, and had retractable gear. Kym had leased the plane from the owner for our safari, but learned a day or two before I arrived that the owner had decided to sell it, leaving us without transportation. It was a squeeze play on the owner's part to force Kym to buy the plane, and it worked, because it was too late for her to make other arrangements. Had she not done so, my safari would have been snafued. I was most grateful for her "gift" and really hoped she had not put herself in an untenable situation because of me. It was then time for Mike and Andrew to drop me at my hotel, The Hertford, a few miles away, where I was really ready for a soothing soak in a hot bath, and dinner, before be

Author : Karl Finatzer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying African Skies written by Karl Finatzer and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Hunt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Bush Pilot written by David Hunt and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of a series of short stories of real life bush flying adventures in Africa. Seat of the pants flying as a single pilot operation before the advent of GPS navigation, when pilots flew with their wits on intuition and adrenaline. A true story written with humor, portraying the culture and flavor of Africa in the 1980s.

Author : Christiaan Roux
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781366823830
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mozambique - a Bush Pilot's Perspective written by Christiaan Roux and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mozambique as seen from the lens of a professional South African bush pilot who spent over 5 years flying around the islands and bush camps of Mozambique in Cessna C208 Caravan, Cessna C402, Cessna C206 and GA8 Airvan aircraft.Out of thousands of photos taken during his time in country both from the air and on the ground, the collection in this photobook are some of the author's best and favourites.From Mozambique's southern border with South Africa right up to it's northern border with Tanzania, this collection showcases some of the most beautiful sights seen by the author in Mozambique, with a healthy dose of short runways and bush planes thrown into the mix.

Author : "CC" Milne Pocock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781942634676
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bush and Mountain Flying written by "CC" Milne Pocock and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses mainly on highly advanced techniques and skills required to operate safely in remote, challenging and extreme conditions.Any pilot who is looking for training or mentoring in Bush and Mountain Flying skills and techniques should seek it from an appropriately skilled, experienced and knowledgeable pilot in this field and not a flight instructor whose claim to fame is flying around the ¿cabbage patch¿ or only flying charters or airliners. A flight instructor rating does not qualify one as an instant ¿flight guru¿, knowledgeable in all aspects of flying, nor does it make one an appropriately skilled, experienced and knowledgeable pilot in bush and mountain flying. The techniques in this book explore the very edge of the airplane's performance envelope and include flying close to stall speeds at low altitudes and thus are extremely dangerous to inexperienced pilots without the required skills and judgement.

Author : Thomas Bowen
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816529384
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Backcountry Pilot written by Thomas Bowen and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published in cooperation with the University of Arizona Southwest Center."

Author : Beryl Markham
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780865471184
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book West with the Night written by Beryl Markham and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1983 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography detailing the author's life in Africa and career as a pilot.

Author : Time-Life Books
Publisher : Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books
ISBN 13 : 9780809433124
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bush Pilots written by Time-Life Books and published by Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books. This book was released on 1983 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the personalities, planes and experiences of bush pilots flying in the Canadian wilderness, the Australian outback, the jungles of New Guinea and Latin America and the frozen land of Alaska.