Orange Tails and Vapour Trails: Wind in the Wires to Glass Cockpits - A Pilot Remembers

A kaleidoscope of stories from a forty-year career as a pilot from learning to fly to retiring as a South African Airways (SAA) Captain. While the theme is a memoir it is less about the author and more about a kaleidoscope of amusing colourful sometimes terrifying but always interesting incidents and stories that speckled a forty-year career in aviation. The early years stories include the bombing of a horse racing track with mielies (corn cobs) on race day forced landings and experiences in the...See More