sn26567 wrote:The surrealistic text posted on the web page of the airport of Ouagadougou on the first day of the "transition" in Burkina Faso:
Today, the site is back to normal (and also the SN flights). The SN flight coming from Dakar (SN515) is mentioned as 2J515 (Air Burkina), meaning SN has traffic rights between Dakar and Ouagadougou !
Beware .. many of these claimed "african airports website" are fakes ..( Abidjan, Dakar, Lomé, Bamako, Cotonou, Niamey,..)
From LeMonde French newspaper of today : http://bigbrowser.blog.lemonde.fr/2014/ ... e-dautres/
sn-remember wrote:many of these claimed "african airports website" are fakes ..( Abidjan, Dakar, Lomé, Bamako, Cotonou, Niamey,..)
That's indeed what I have written a few posts later in this thread.
sn26567 wrote:
sn26567 wrote:The surrealistic text posted on the web page of the airport of Ouagadougou on the first day of the "transition" in Burkina Faso ...
It now appears that the site of the airport of Ouagadougou is not an official site (there is none). Like the sites of the airports of Abidjan, Dakar, Lomé, Bamako, Cotonou, Bissau, Niamey, they all belong to a French citizen living in the South of France, but they use local people for the contents. They are thus commercial enterprises which live from advertising.
The local airport authorities don't have the money to set up an official site, and these "fakes" give enough reliable information. But sometimes an editor can make his feelings known, like happened at Ouagadougou during the recent destitution of the President.
Aer Lingus on Wednesday upgraded its full-year guidance, saying it now expects operating profit for the full-year to be ahead of 2013’s result of €61.1m.
China's national civil aviation authority says the country will need to train about half a million civilian pilots by 2035, up from just a few thousand now, as wannabe flyers chase dreams of landing lucrative jobs at new air service operators.
The aviation boom comes as China allows private planes to fly below 1,000 meters from next year without military approval, seeking to boost its transport infrastructure. Commercial airlines aren't affected, but more than 200 new firms have applied for general aviation operating licenses, while China's high-rollers are also eager for permits to fly their own planes.
The civil aviation authority's own training unit can only handle up to 100 students a year. With the rest of China's 12 or so existing pilot schools bursting at the seams, foreign players are joining local firms in laying the groundwork for new courses that can run to hundreds of thousands of dollars per trainee.
true "The first batch of students we enrolled in 2010 were mostly business owners interested in getting a private license," said Sun Fengwei, deputy chief of the Civil Aviation Administration of China's (CAAC) pilot school. "But now more and more young people also want to learn flying so that they can get a job at general aviation companies."
While uncertainties remain for what will be a brand new industry, firms are betting they can make money and trainee pilots are convinced they can land dream jobs. Among them is Zong Rui, a 28-year-old former soldier in the People's Liberation Army from Shandong province in east China, attending a pilot school in Tianjin, an hour's drive from Beijing.
"The salary is good for a general aviation pilot," Zong told Reuters by telephone, preparing for a training session. Even without a job lined up, Zong is certain money he borrowed to learn how to fly will pay off: "I can easily pay back the 500,000 yuan ($81,750) tuition in two years, once I get a job."
Passenger wrote:VRT tv, as from Tuesday 04 November 2014: series "Flying doctors"
http://www.een.be/programmas/flying-doctors
Drie dokters en een piloot vertrekken op de reis van hun leven. In een 35 jaar oude Cessna doorkruisen ze Europa, de Middellandse Zee en zes landen in het oosten van Afrika. Het einddoel: het Virungapark in Oost-Congo, waar het toestel een tweede leven krijgt als medisch evacuatievliegtuig voor gewonde rangers. Wie zijn deze avonturiers?
Three young Flemish doctors start the journey of their life. Together with pilot Anthony Caere (33) they deliver OO-NGO, a 35 year old Cessna, to the medical service of the Virunga National Park in Congo.
EASA has issued a safety warning for Egypt, specifically for the sinai penisula.
Due to ongoing insurgent activity, operators of civil aircraft should be aware of the risk to flight operations safety in the Northern Sinai Governorate of Egypt deriving from possible use of small arms fire, rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and anti-aircraft fire, including shoulder-fired man-portable air defence systems (MANPADS). The threat is considered to represent a significant risk to aviation overflying this area at or below FL260.
