A quick update on the Dave TV series "Bush Pilots" set in Botswana,
which may be of interest to some of aspiring commercial pilots on FG.
Without giving any spoilers away, the series doesn't just concentrate on established pilots so much or the guests (tourists) really at all.
It is mainly about a group of CPL trained rookies, who go out there at the start of the "hiring" season on tourist visas and live in tents for up to three months,
then go through various stages of interviews to get their first professional pilot's job.
These stages include CPL technical papers, psychometric and flight tests. Dunno which of the featured rookies gets the jobs, last episode is Friday.
The established pilots do feature, ferrying guests up to the bush camps as well.
It also shows them on check flights, when they upgrade to a larger aircraft types.Today's was a check flight with the Chief Pilot for a Cessna Caravan. This comprised of "steep turns", dead stick forced landing drills, plus full dead engine landing back at the field.
Good series for pilots and aviation nerds alike, so well done Dave TV.
(Please ignore as before, sometimes silly narration commentary scripts. "OMG it is bad weather in the rainy season"., etc.)
"Bush Pilots" also showed two aircraft I'd not seen before from the Antipodes:
From New Zealand
Pacific Aircraft P750
From Australia
Gippsland Airvan GA8
