Flip in a Micro light and Poacher buzzin- South Africa Gap Year Research Trip
One of the guys who works at the flight school – Harmann a real Afrikaans local guy, took me up in a Microlight Trike for a fly around the airfield. Now this was fun! I have to get rated on one of these things, imagine a hanglider strapped to a garden chair powered by a huge prop at the back and you have a pretty good idea about one of these things. I guess it is like a motor bike of the skies, as you sit in this seat and your legs just dangle. This makes the views from the air amazing, we went up for 15 minutes and did a few circuits around the airfield. Great fun.
Earlier in the day during my lesson I was flying low over a disussed airstrip next to this orchard. Grant notices a couple of black guys running for cover as we passed over – Poachers nicking fruit out of the trees, this pissed Grant off and he grabbed the controls and nosed dived at the poachers buzzing passed them. Then we circled at about 30ft above the ground directly above them banking almost vertically. This eventually scared them off and made me think about revisiting my lunch as the constant G force made me a bit dizzy, but I like to think that was my good deed for the day.
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