I am hoping for some help. As a very fresh Gyro Guy, having never ventured further from my homebase than Witbank to the east and Zeerust to the west, I am involved in a venture in the faraway village of Opuwo, Namibia and I want to do a gyro flight there and back.
My plan is to do a FATA - FAPN (although there is a tread on Avcom that it seems that all immigration at FAPN is closed) or FALA (if I can convince them to take on a Gyro arrival), then via a friend's farm on the Bots border and onwards to Eros, so check out FAPN/FALA check in FYWE and then obviously onwards north to the village of Opuwo.
My request is simple:
1. Any Gyro guys of Microlighters that have done the Nam crossborder thing, and of course how did you do it? Do I get an Agent to do the Flight Plan?
2. Is it easy to check out FAPN/FALA and of course same question for Eros?
3. What applications/approvals are neaded to fly into and around Nam for say a week or 2?
4. Overnight parking in Eros, available/cost?
5. Of course the general question, anyone wants to go with
?6. Is Mafikeng still a check out point? Some sites say "international" while acsa does not have them listed as international. Also must say last week FAPN was still on acsa as international and today they are gone. Whats happening?
7. Should I go to Bots and take a short cut to Nam?
As always I am confident the Microlighters will help with all kinds of info.
Pieter
As for Namibia, not sure what the procedure is but for Botswana all you need is a flight plan