Aviation and air adventures are the kind of outings where you can expect to meet some pretty eccentric people doing what they love to do most: get high from being in the sky, get as close as they dare to fly like a bird. Not that they run serious risks, mind you. The best aviation and air adventures place a heavy emphasis on safety first, before the thrill of being in the air, and an expert is always on hand to show us how or just to reassure us when we need a little help dealing with the thought. of everything.
The weather is critical: if it’s bad, then you can’t do it; if it’s good, chances are they’re flying all day, every day. The organizers of the best air and aviation adventures take a lot of precautions in what they do and before taking off there will always be a briefing on safety rules and procedures to follow. That being said, sometimes no training is required, like on Skydive Tandem in Witbank. As they say at Skydive Plettenberg Bay, when it comes to a tandem drop, all you need is a pair of shoes… For these aerial and aviation adventures, you step out of the plane attached to your tandem master and experience the thrill of the freefall. at over 200 kilometers per hour until you take off and float to the ground, with your two-seater master watching over you every second of the fall!
Participating in these aviation and air adventures without help is even more exciting and if you are not yet qualified you can take a course. Skydive Rustenberg, for example, offers courses for first jumps, accelerated skydiving training in free fall and all the disciplines of sport skydiving.
Alternatively, there are the kinds of flying and aviation adventures that don’t require jumping out of a plane. Like paragliding, offered by very experienced people, like the ones who run Fly Cape Town Paragliding, or SA Paragliding Adventures, or the guys who run Cloudbase Paragliding in the Wilderness on the Garden Route. It can be launched by foot, winch or a coupled motor. And no problem if you haven’t been on air and aviation adventures before: these folks provide all the necessary equipment and offer both paragliding and powered paragliding classes that get you tandem flying or prepare you for additional training like that. offered by Cloudbase to obtain an internationally recognized license that will allow you to fly solo.
And then there’s the microlight side of aviation and aerial adventures… Aquila Microlight Safaris in Malmesbury is one of the options, and Aviation Adventures flying club in Hazyview offers some of the most spectacular scenery to be seen in their microlight flights ranging from 10 to 90 minutes in the early morning or late afternoon over countryside that includes the Sabie River Valley, Blyde River Canyon, God’s Window, and Mac Mac Falls, to name just a few of the wonderful views.