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Top left Ruvuma River border between Mozambique and Tanzania, Air Excel Let 410, ZanAir Cessna 404, Early morning terminal one apron Dar es Salaam airport.


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You want to know what the flying is like in Maun?


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If you have a new commercial pilots

license or you want a change and flysomewhere with an adventure, then MaunBotswana is your place!Its all stick and rudder skills and flyingby the seat of your pants.

Often people label bush pilots ascowboys, but apart from the oddexception, they could not be further fromthe truth. In Maun pilots are trained to a

high standard before being let loose in theOkavango Delta as a line pilot onoperations. I think Maun pilots have someof the best handling skills of light aircraft that you can find anywhere.

Considering Maun and the Okavango Delta are 3000 feet ASL, temperatures

during the summer reach around 40 degrees Celsius. However, strips can alsobe rough and treacherous during the rainy season and many are closelysurrounded with large trees so at some strips you can only take off in onedirection.

Wild animals from antelope to zebra can run out onto a strip at anytime duringthe take off roll or short finals. Also in flight there are vultures, stalks, and fisheagles to contend with up to and above altitudes of 6000 feet.

Combineall these obstacles, plus heavy aircraft loads and you have anenvironment in which you will start fillingthat bag of experience very quickly.

The flying is mainly VFR, which isacceptable as Botswanas weather isbasically clear all year round. During the wet

season Cumulonimbuss can grow quitelarge, however they are isolated and can benegotiated with relative ease. Also, towardsthe end of the dry season you lose thehorizon due to smoke and dust in theatmosphere, although this is nothing toworry about as the worst visibility will onlyget down to 5 miles.

Once you are a line pilot you have use of GPS to aid you with navigation. Itcomes in real handy when having to divert around thunderstorms in the wet

season and finding your destination in the hazy conditions of the dry season.


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On average pilots fly 900 hours in a year - perfect for pilots wanting to buildhours. Time off is rare as all pilots work six days on and one day off.

The flying varies from scenic flights over the Okavango Delta, transferringguests between safari camps, freight runs for camps, emergency medivacs and

photography. Operations are not just confined to Botswana, most operators alsofly regularly to Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

At certain times of the year pilots can be

flying right up to their legal limits of hoursflying. You wont find too many otherplaces where one can build hours at such arate like Maun.

Aircraft are well maintained and noaircraft flies over its maintenanceschedule. Very few incidents occur, whichshows the professionalism of the pilotsand maintenance crew, especially for theamount of actual flying hours of theaircraft.

There are roughly 40 pilots based inMaun at any one time with a high turnover

due to pilots moving up in aviation. The ages of the pilots varies from twentythrough to people in their forties.

What other flying job do you get to overnight in exclusive safari camps

and go out on game drives? Where you can enjoy a few sundowners by a

campfire whilst watching the sunset across a lagoon filled with noisy

hippos...

I loved my time flying in Botswana. I dont understand why every other freshlyqualified pilot is not out there doing it!


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How to get that job flying for a charter company in Maun,

Botswana.

Maun is one of those places where youhave to be there to be in with a chance of a

job. You cannot expect to get a job viaemail or over the phone. Youre going tohave to pack your bags and go. Yes, it is along way from anywhere unless youre inSouth Africa, but Maun is an extremely

transient town. Most pilots only do twoseasons tops and move on, this creates alarge demand for pilots with low hours.Nowhere else is there such a need for apilot with only 200 hours.A good time to hunt for work in Maun is between October and March.

A good thing about Maun it that it is a cheap place to spend a month or two jobhunting. Some pilots walk into town and pick up a job in less than a week

whereas others can be there for nearly 3 months before being offered a job.Some of you may be thinking three months is a long time to wait around, but ifyoure serious about getting somewhere in aviation as a pilot, what you learn


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from your time in Maun will be pricelesslater on in your career. The wait is more thanworth it. Plus, where else could you get a jobin aviation which involves buzzing a strip to

clear a herd of stubborn buffalo orwildebeest off it before you can land?

So you decide to go to Maun, the first part

of your plan is to have C.V./resume ready tohand out to the seven operators in town.Whilst doing this, ensure to make youknown to all of the chief pilots and operation

managers of each company. If you find it difficult to approach people, dontworry EVERYsingle one of the forty odd pilots in Maun have done exactlywhat youre doing!

Once you are known to all the operators, make it a point to go in early eachmorning, say hello and POLITELY ask if there are any empty seats on flightsthat day. This helps to remind the operator that youre still around andinterested. The operators dont mind if you go along on certain flights withempty seats. This helps them get an idea of you and helps you orientate yourselfwith the Okavango Delta. Dont be put off or offended if at any time before a

flight your seat is dropped, they are abusiness at the end of the day and thepaying customer is their priority.

You should keep a rough record of eachof these flights that you manage to get on,especially where you went as it helps youto learn the Delta. Prospective employerslike to see you begin to learn where stripand features in the terrain are. My firsttime going along for a flight over theDelta I saw it as a featureless terrain, thena year later I knew it all intimately. Ill

never complain again about parts of NewZealand being difficult to navigate around visually!

To further assist, there is a Government Lands and Survey office about 200metres from the airport which sells maps of the Okavango Delta. The scale usedfor flying is 1:350000 and these maps cost about P60.00 = $12.00USD. You canget the name labels for the 37 or so operational airstrips from any of theoperators. You may be thinking that making your own flying map does notsound too professional, however although there are aviation maps of SouthernAfrica about, they do not have even half of the strips that the local operators use

to fly into the Delta. The exercise of putting your own map together doesntsound like a sure way of obtaining a job, but it displays to operators that youre


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committed to learning and serious aboutgetting a job, as well as increasing yourown knowledge of the Deltas layout avital requirement.

Ok, now youre thinking what do I dowith the rest of my time? Well the socialside of things is a crucial part of getting a

job as well. Mauns pilots are an incrediblysocial bunch, so be prepared to enjoy a fewbeers most evenings at Bon Arrivee,BucknHunter or wherever the night takesyou. Their a friendly bunch of expatriateswho have all been in your position. As

long as youre friendly youll be accepted in no time. This is also an importantpart of the job acquiring process as if the pilots like you, word soon filters itsway back to the operators as it is only a small town. Its not uncommon to havea good yarn with a chief pilot or ops manager over a few lagers which cannever harm your prospects!

Braais (bbqs) as they are called in Maun are a big social aspect of the pilotslives and are a great way to meet people.

After meeting the operators, doing the daily rounds, catching a flight or two inthe delta and socializing with the pilots, you never know when the job offer willhappen. An operator could ask you to go on a test flight or request you for an

interview at any moment.When you get to Maun dont be discouraged if you find out that there are no

jobs going or there are ten other wannabe pilots in town seeking employment. Ifyou trekked halfway across the world like most of the pilots have, then yourewilling to stay a month or two. So if there is no job going that week, then withina month there will almost definitely be a vacancy. Mauns pilots are constantlymoving onto bigger and better things as flying hours are accumulated at such arapid rate in Maun. From my personalexperience, all pilots that arrive in Maun set

on acquiring a flying job have succeeded, itis only the ones who arrive half heartedexpecting to get a job in four days are theones that fail and go home all sour.Whether it takes one week, three months oreven a second trip to Maun, thecommitment pays off. Even though it isusually most pilots first job flying, it willbe the one that you remember and talk

about the most throughout your career andlife.


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I myself have moved onto greater things in aviation, but my experience as abush pilot in Botswana is envied by ex instructors and charter pilots who haveonly flown tarmac to tarmac. Its real flying.

Dont be scared to go there, you will never regret it!

A basic outline of what happens once you have your name on the

dotted line to say you succeeded in obtaining that elusive first

flying job.

Once you the job you wont needanything more from me, but I willgive you a quick outline of roughlywhat happens, although it does varyfrom operator to operator.

You dont start getting paid untilyou go on line (meaning when you

start carrying passengers byyourself). Some operators offer aretainer, to help you financially untilyou go on line. The average

starting pay is P6000.00 through

to P7000.00 per month on a

Cessna 206.It may not seem likemuch but in Maun one can live quitecomfortably on that, since living


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expenses are not very high. Operators also now provide a small livingallowance whilst a pilot is undergoing training. It may be small but anything isappreciated.

When you start with an operator you must sit a law exam, flight test and a

medical. The operator pays for all of this along with any other fees so in a wayyou are bonded to the company for that. Over 12 months the amount owingdecreases to nothing. Mine was P7000.00 for all my training, license fees,

residence waiver and work permit. However, there are a couple of operators thatwill make you sign a two year contract and if you break that contract at anytimeyou will owe the full amount.

Once the operator sends away for your Botswana pilots license to theDepartment of Civil Aviation (DCA) it usually takes 2-4 weeks to process.

When you have your license back you can then apply for your residencewaiver and work permit. Once again, the operator that has hired you pays forthis and although applying for these is no straight forward matter, eventuallyeverything is processed. This usually takes between 4-6 weeks.

Whilst all the above paperwork is processing you are training with youroperator. Again, the structure and requirements for training varies from operatorto operator. For the operator I was employed by, I had to complete 50 hoursright hand seat just to learn and orientate myself with the Delta and then 30

hours left hand seat. Then, once the chief pilot decided I was not going to killanyone he sent me off with paying customers! From there youre quickly onyour way to clocking up 900 hours a year.

The whole process from the day you get hired to the day your on line is usuallyabout 2-3 months. This is all quite a long time from the day you arrive in MaunI know, but its cheap to live there, you will make friendships and contacts thatwill stay with you for the rest of your life and, most importantly, its the bestflying Ive ever done!


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09.10.2009African Bush Pilot EBook Update

Botswana:A quick update on how the Botswana authorities are doing their best to makelife difficult for new pilots, who have trekked half way across the globe, waitedaround/grovelled for days for a job from an operator. Then go through all thepain of obtaining a Botswana license and residence work permit only to havenew obstacles thrown at you...

*Immigration have now decided that pilots applying for residence permit, workpermit and the temporary permit(the temporary permit comes SLIGHTLYquicker so you can get flying for real) need to have a police clearance from your

home country or the country that you have resided in for the last five years. Thisis best done before setting off to Africa as these kinds of things are nothing buta can of worms when trying to sort out over long distance and from a thirdworld country.This is a quote from a friend flying in Maun at present:

Advice is definitely get the police clearance sorted before you get on the flight leavinghome, it takes a solid month minimum to get in most countries (even the civilized ones like
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Uk and Aus) and to try and do it over the phone and posting finger prints back and forth and

shit is just a nightmare!!!

I am sure you can see wisdom in obtaining the police clearance before settingoff for AFRICA.

*Since the Honorable President Ian Khama has become the president ofBotswana he has gone all out putting all sorts of restrictions on alcohol...dontworry this isnt the end of the world. There are still plenty of places forpilot/pilots to go drink and talk endlessly about that days flying.These days the BucknHunter is no longer the Friday night hotspot for pilotsdue to new ownership not keeping up the atmosphere and awesome pizzas .TheBack To The Bridge Backpackers is a popular bar these days it has a sand floorbar on the Bank of the Thamalakane river overlooking the hippo pool near theold bridge (hence the name).....Also there are the other oldies like Sports bar, Audi camp, Croc camp and theFriday night spot these days River lodge (liver rot as some call it).

Tanzania*Only one real thing of interest which has been a possibility all along butTCAA (Tanzanian civil aviation authority) have preferred to make life moredifficult for a pilot until he/she can start flying online (earning money).What I am talking about is license validations. When they are approved they arebrilliant for the new ex-patriot pilot itching to get released as soon as possible.What it is is basically a piece of paper saying that you are allowed to fly aspecific type of aircraft for the specific operator mentioned on the piece ofpaper/validation for a period up to three months. In these three months you canbe going through the great beaurocratic process of obtaining your TanzaniaCommercial pilot license.In theory all you need to qualify for this validation is to have the relevantaircraft type on your foreign pilot license and also have a current instrumentrating on that particular license. Then the TCAA says yes well we will let youfly on that license for three months.

So far I have only seen this for Cessna Caravans (C208) and larger aircraft. Itmay be possible for smaller aircraft that dont require Instrument ratings to flyin Tanzania like C206.Not everybody qualifies or not everybody is allowed depending on the mood ofthe TCAA that particular day whether a validation will be allocated or not.This can halve the time from being hired to the time a pilot is released as a line

pilot. In the last few months new pilots who I have spoken to have all beengiven validations.If you are lucky enough to get a job with an operator here in Tanzania, the

operator will walk you through these steps anyway, this is just a heads up.


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