FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Self-Fly Safari Trips
For Oddballs’ Camp or Delta Camp in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, the baggage you can bring along to the island is limited to 20kg per person, packed in soft bags only. The flights will be with Cessna 206/210 or equivalent aircraft from Maun to the Delta bush airstrip on Chief’s Island and operated by Delta Air.
Water levels in the Okavango Delta are not high every season: this can be a limiting factor on the mokoro excursions to short trips across channels to access areas for guided walking. Bring along good walking shoes with you. Although water activities can be limited due to the water level in the delta, this is very good news for game viewing, as with lower water levels game viewing is phenomenal.
If you are planning to fly as pilot in your own or rented aircraft, it is best to bring your own headsets for you and your passengers. If you bring a hand radio, the radio needs to go into the check-in luggage and cannot be carried on board as hand luggage when you fly commercially to/from South Africa.
If you are planning or want to participate in a walking safari or a sleep-out in the bush in the open air with one of our field guides, bring a sleeping bag and good walking shoes. In any case, it is advised to bring a hat to protect against the sun, lots of screen tan lotion, Deet mosquito repellent and medicines to protect against Malaria.
As African Flying Adventures, we offer arrangements for the group safaris at a full catering, all-inclusive price. That is, our offer includes the hotel/lodging full-catering but does not include any airfares, local (taxi) transportation except on arrival on the first day where we pick you up from the airport and on your last day back to the airport. Specials wines, champagne or spirits that you order in the lodges are excluded from the all-inclusive price.
For custom designed personal trips, the situation might be different from above, in which case we will specify on our offer to you what is included and what not. Check the Tours details for more information specific to each Tour.
On our wine tours, you can buy the wine you taste at the wineries. If you want to buy wine, we will provide with a box specifically designed to ship wine and we will ship it to your home address free of charge.
Yes! On group tours, a pilot with extensive African bush experience will be flying along in a support aircraft. You will in such cases be charged an additional concierge service fee for the guides and pilot flying along. Flight support: each flying day you will get an extensive briefing discussing the weather as well as route options. The pilot will also bring along survival equipment and we have aircraft engineers on standby to support us where needed in case we run into mechanical issues that we can not easily solve while en route. Additionally, we track all participating aircraft from our back-office with satellite trackers and the support pilot coming along has a way to communicate by satellite link.
If you are not participating in a group tour, but flying on your own, we will support you from day to day with the clearances, permits, the filing of flight plans as well as giving you regional weather updates. However, we won’t be flying along with you in a support aircraft.
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How to prepare
You don’t have to get a Jeppesen subscription. All the countries we fly through are covered in SkyDemon, but without the visual approach charts for the airports and airfields we will be visiting, but including basic information on airspace and on airfields such as the runway length, direction, altitude, type of pavement, radio frequency and contact information. It is strongly advised to have SkyDemon installed on a tablet or iPad and to get a subscription for 1 year. With SkyDemon installed on your tablet, you are all good to go. The VAC (visual approach) Jeppesen charts for the larger airports we will be visiting will be made available to you.
For Oddballs’ Camp or Delta Camp in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, the baggage you can bring along to the island is limited to 20kg per person, packed in soft bags only. The flights will be with Cessna 206/210 or equivalent aircraft from Maun to the Delta bush airstrip on Chief’s Island and operated by Delta Air.
Water levels in the Okavango Delta are not high every season: this can be a limiting factor on the mokoro excursions to short trips across channels to access areas for guided walking. Bring along good walking shoes with you. Although water activities can be limited due to the water level in the delta, this is very good news for game viewing, as with lower water levels game viewing is phenomenal.
If you are planning to fly as pilot in your own or rented aircraft, it is best to bring your own headsets for you and your passengers. If you bring a hand radio, the radio needs to go into the check-in luggage and cannot be carried on board as hand luggage when you fly commercially to/from South Africa.
If you are planning or want to participate in a walking safari or a sleep-out in the bush in the open air with one of our field guides, bring a sleeping bag and good walking shoes. In any case, it is advised to bring a hat to protect against the sun, lots of screen tan lotion, Deet mosquito repellent and medicines to protect against Malaria.
View more FAQ on the FAQ page.
One way in which you can prepare is to read the Kindle e-book “Crossing Boundaries” which you can find on Amazon.com here. The author takes you along on his flights through the African continent. By reading this book, you should have a good understanding of what is involved when flying in Africa. If you are converting or validating your pilot license into a South African license, you will have to do one theory test in Air Law the moment you arrive in South Africa. We have created a free online course that prepares you for this theory exam as well as for the flying in Africa. You can find the course here.
Terms & Condition
You can find the legal terms in the top menu under the section FAQs & TERMS as well as here.