A familiar aircraft followed me into Livingstone International Airport (FLHN)
Arrival at Lusaka International Airport (FLKK)
Parking here on the main apron is expensive due to it being an international airport. Lucky for me a friendly guy offered me a place in the GA area overnight. He had an involvement in the Crete to Cape Town air rally in 2016, very interesting wish I could have stayed longer but needed to try and make Livingstone the following morning. Thank you !
Refueling in KASAMA (FLKS) Zambia
It was going to be hard to get fuel to Kasama as it was quite remote but Sam Rutherford (Prepare2Go) knew someone who had some spare avgas just to give me enough to make Lusaka my next stop. Thank you Sam, Hazel & Nelson !
Arrival in Kasama (FLKS) Zambia
I called the airfield 20 miles inbound and they told me to report left base runway 31. It took me a while to find as I was expecting a tarmac runway. ATC then said land on the left runway but I could only see one runway. On closer inspection there looked like a very small strip to the left and what I had been looking at was a new runway under construction, could have been interesting ! The two guys from the Zambian military had just landed in the C-27J Spartan in the background, amazing how they get it in and out of a gravel strip !
The Best job in the World
When at Dodoma airport I met this young guy, he was flying back to the Serengeti with his family. He worked on the park flying up and down every day at low level checking for game and poachers. He was only 34 and had 1350 hours !!
Flying over the Serengeti (Tanzania)
A vast area, amazed at how green it was probably due to all the rain they had recently.
Mount Kilimanjaro and the Ngorongoro Crater
As I crossed the boarder into Tanzania to my left was Kilimanjaro and to my right the Ngorongoro Crater, unfortunately due to low cloud I could see neither. The crater is the largest intact volcanic caldera in the world with its own microclimate and wildlife life living within it. There is an airstrip on the rim I had planned to land at 7760 feet (MSL), but unfortunately not today !
Departing Nairobi Wilson (HKNM) Destination Dodoma (HTDO) Tanzania
Kenya being on the equator is right in the middle of the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) which is a belt of low pressure which circles the earth generally near the equator where the trade winds of the Northern and Southern hemispheres come together. It is characterised by convective activity which generates often vigorous thunderstorms over large areas well known to aviators around the world. This year Kenya has had its fair share of storms and these have caused a few delays but so far I feel I have been lucky not to encounter too many.
Catching up with Friends
Delays in Nairobi meant I was able to catch up with friends Daniel & Lucy Haywood who live in Nairobi. Thank you both for your hospitality, sorry I took so long to leave ! Amazingly his grandfather was involved with the start up of Farm Africa and was also the first person to start the flying doctors in Kenya ! A small world !
