Parys Rally

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Went with Steve to Parys in a small Cessna 172 for a Rally.



Left Pretoria before sunrise to take off at 7 from Brits Airfield and arrived into Parys one hour later. The flight there was very smooth in the cool crisp air and the view’s just amazing!



Met up with Steve’s dad had a good breakfast and attended the briefing before the Rally started. I was invited to do the 2 hour Rally flight and off we went. Steve was the navigator and his dad the pilot. The aim is to find certain locations and then fly over them at a given time. I had the job of identifying specific landmarks but was useless as I was more concerned by avoiding airsickness that eventually caught up with me. I was happy to be back on the ground again.



2 other pilots then took the aircraft for their Rally run and as soon as they were back at about 3, Steve and I jumped back in to take the aircraft back to Brits. The weather almost caught up with us but we missed the worse of it.

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Photos

Brits-Parys (08)
Captain Steve and Werna First Officer