Last night we had had confirmationt the guys had been in contact with Maldives Air Traffic Control and were making good progress towards Sri Lanka. Hopefully we will have some more good news soon as to where they are and how long still till their arrival. In the meantime here is a video clip on

I just had a brief chat to James … they are both really exhausted and slightly rattled. They landed after a 21 hour flight at just after 4am SA time after a very tough flight. During the daylight hours they found their way around the storms OK, but there were periods in the night when

The fuel pump filters have been cleaned out as expected one was completely blocked. There are filters before the pumps but they are coarser than the ones in the pumps so very fine fluff gets past the coarse filters and then blocks the pump filters. We will fit extra filters when we get a chance

Things are looking a whole lot brighter after an afternoon nap on the back of a couple of Lion lagers each. It’s 23h45 local time already and we’re up at 04h00 time for the airport though, so we’re not exactly going to slum it out. Also, it’s Friday night and there’s a wedding going on

I woke up at 3 am this morning to check the weather – Sias had written out a very nice summary for me – I also got hold of the World Wide Aviation Weather Forecasting Centre in the UK. Tim Parsonson usually does this job but seeing it was in the middle of the night

Here is a short video posted when James and Jean was in Réunion, and James gave a short demonstration on the MGL Voyager they use in the Sling

We found this small video clip of James and Jean being interviewed in Rnion shortly after their arrival.

After phoning every airport and flying school in the Maldives Andrew reported back with the bad news that there is no Avgas available at all. Plan B was get someone to bring in 400 liters of Mogas, which Mohamed Niyaz very kindly offered to do. However the best quality Mogas available in that part of

Email from the Director of Civil Aviation in Mauritius: We refer to your mail below. We have to inform you that your request cannot be acceded to, as your aircraft is not equipped with communication equipment enabling you to maintain a continuous two way radio communication with Mauritius ATS units for the provision of: 1.

“Never give up, never, never, never give up” said Winston Churchill. We’ll it feels as if we’ve been fighting a war today. It’s too late to really explain all the administrative problems that we’ve run up against. The long and the short of it, however, is that the Mauritians will not allow us to traverse