By Garth Calitz Walk into any flying club, airport pub or hangar on a Saturday morning and mention the words "best avionics" if you want to witness a debate that makes discussions about oil brands or tailwheel versus nosewheel seem positively civilised. Within seconds, pilots will divide into tribes. Coffee will be spilt. Someone will begin drawing wiring diagrams on a serviette. An avionics engineer will quietly walk away before being asked for a quote. The truth is, there h

By Rob Russell Every time you open a travel site or read a travel article, Cape Town is right up there and everyone wants to travel to the Western Cape. Great for business and the economy, but is the Cape well-equipped to handle the increase in air traffic? At present, the Cape only has one airport that can handle international traffic, both scheduled and non-scheduled. Many of these non-scheduled (and private) flights bring some well-known people to the Cape and they are her

When aviation expertise and emergency medicine come together, the result is far more than a business partnership; it becomes a vital link in South Africa's emergency response capability. The long-standing collaboration between the National Airways Corporation (NAC) and Netcare 911 continues to demonstrate how world-class aviation support can make a critical difference when every second counts. For many years, NAC has provided the aviation backbone that enables Netcare 911 to