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Airplane trips over the Lake District

Background:
Every year for the past 14 years, Nico has played a role in fire fighting with his spotter aircraft during the winter months. Nico is a commercial pilot with more than 1 600 hours flying time in these particular planes. He has been passionate about flying since he was very young and started to fly micro-lights in 1984. In 1990 he obtained his commercial pilot’s licence and since then has been a spottor plane pilot at the Warburton fire-fighting base (about 28km from Florence).

Florence Guest Farm Guests:
If you are a guest at Florence Guest Farm, you are welcome to go for a flip to see the Lake District from the air.  It is worth while!  I would like to compare it with the Okovango Swamps; if you have not see it from the air, you  have not see it at all.
When Nico took Prof.  Leon Hugo ( Dept. Eco-Tourism UP) for a flight over the lakes, he came back with tears in his eyes and said “ It is a oasis never discovered”.

Season:
1 June to 30 October on calm days, normally early in the morning.

Costs:
R500 for  a flight of 30 minutes 3 persons maximum.

Directions:

Turn left on the tar (N17) at Florence Guest Farm’s main gate. Travel for about 27km, turn right to LOTHAIR, travel for 1 km, turn left at the Forest Fire sign, and travel  along the dirt road for 500m (Keep right) towards the Operational Center.