My Long Nav.

Due to the fact that I am a slacker, I have been putting this off for a while. 8 months to be exact (eish!).So some of the details have gone a bit faded but I still remember the flight like it was yesterday. I flew the clubs new Cessna 172 ZS-SLM. I had chosen to do the Stellenbosch-George flight as I found it would be a good way for me to learn about flying into bigger airports. I arrived in the early morning,fueled the aircraft, faxed the flightplans through and called Overberg Air force base (since I would be doing a touch and go at a small airfield near Cape Aghullas called Andrews field and would be entering air force airspace), the chap was extremely friendly and my instructor and I were off by 0800..we flew first to Andrews Field, did the touch and go, and continued up South Africa's longest all white beach at low level. The friendly chap from earlier called us up on the radio and told us to look for whales as it was whale season(we spotted 19 whales). He then proceeded to crap on another guy for not calling before entering the airspace. This pleased my instructor because he could now see that I had thought ahead and done it. We continued up the coast towards Mossel Bay,contacted George tower and got instructions to land behind a South African Airlink Embraer. We landed, refueled, parked the plane and went and had lunch in the terminal. The flight back was much more routine though. We were at 8000 feet (so no whale-spotting) and had a head wind causing the flight to be much longer. We were also over land the whole flight, routing over Swellendam and then on to Stellenbosch. The total day's flying was a little over 5 hours in my logbook and a shitload of fun!