Sling Trainer ZDF

Durban Skyye Flight School has updated it's training aircraft to a new Sling Trainer ZDF. Here CEO Dave Mc Naught poses with the plane in it's new flight school branding. Recalls Dave - "When I was first learning to fly I needed confidence in the aircraft I was training with so I felt it important to have modern aircraft to train in and with the latest updated technology. The Sling trainer has a touch-screen computer EFIS (electonic flight instrument system) as well as backup standard instruments.

Explorer Taildragger

We have an LSA taildragger for the Flight School. ZU-MSC, an Explorer with a Rotax 912 ULS engine arrived at Virginia this week with ATF for our flight school.

Our new Instructor Ian Waghorn is tail-dragger rated and has considerable time on them. He will be doing his conversion to the Explorer and the Flight School will be offering this neat tail-dragger for ratings, conversions and hire-and-fly.

So if you're keen on getting your rudder skills improved, come and get your rating with us.

The Flight School's new taildragger ZU-MSC

Scenes from our Open Day

Our scholars Open Day at Durban Skyye Flight School on Saturday.. a chance to introduce the thrill of flight, our incredible flying machines and our instructors to the local schools and visitors.

Instructor Johnny introduces Stephen to our Sling LSA at the Open Day yesterday

British Airways honoured our Open Day with a dramatic fly-past overhead with the massive Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger airliner

Matt and Lyell enjoyed a microlight flight along the Durban beachfront

Flight School CEO Dave at our Kiosk in the main Concourse of Virginia Airport 

Mark (left) with Dad Dave go for a flight over Umhlanga

Durban Skyye are the Agents for the Johannesburg manufactured Sling Aircraft and have two Slings on the School register

Dean was given a tour of the Flight School and checked out our planes

Taylan won a free flight in our microlight competition draw

Flight School Instructor Kyle takes off with Matt for an Intro Flight

Our Chief Flying Instructor Brad in the air with Lyell

Flight School CEO Dave (Left) with our PPL Chief Flying Instructor Keith. Durban Skyye have applied for additional training to enable us to issue both NPL and PPL licences

Our Flight School Sling ZDL with microlight CCL in the background

Matthew and Bruce try out the comfortable leather seats of the Sling

Our Sling "Yankee" with registration FYA and Matthew and Bruce (right)

Mark in the skyye over Umhlanga

Ian left celebrates his 21st birthday today and joined us for the Open Day

Our flight school Sling ZDL

5th plane joins the Flight School

Our Flight School is growing with 3 microlights and 2 Sling aircraft. There is always loads of paperwork getting the aircraft on register and approved for training by the SA Civil Aviation Authority but in anticipation of this we applied the school's branding to ZDL today.

Brad (our Chief Flying Instructor) helps apply the decals to my plane

We have a Sling on the flight school register

 Whilst visiting The Airplane Factory USA in California this week I put together a deal and bought a second hand Sling which we will use for my new Flight School in Durban. The airplane appropriately registered as Foxtrot YANKEE Alpha and is presently based in Cape Town.

Large MGL EFIS with backup altimeter and airspeed indicator

The colour scheme of the plane is silver and red so I will have to convert our Flight School logo into a red and grey one for the plane which should look quite pretty. Looking forward to flying the plane back to Durban where I will also be able to now do my instructor's rating in the plane and then train my own students for their NPL licence.