Fly Inn to Florence Guest Farm

To see Chrissiesmeer from the air is closely like flying over the Ocavango, with 270 pans and lakes in a 15km radius, it is a undiscovered beauty to be discovered.

Chrissiesmeer is of the beaten track but here you will find a peaceful countryside with sandstone cottages on the guest farms and a small town awakening to the charm that tourism brings to the area.

Fly Inns to Florence Guest Farm

Fly Inn to Florence Guest Farm for a breakfast or a weekend, and park your plane next to your cottage. The only runway in Chrissiesmeer is at Florence Guest Farm, 5 km outside town.

It is a 750m long gravel strip.
You need to confirm if you would like to fly in, because we have to inspect the runway for cattle and sheep.
No fuel.
Only 40 minutes flying from Gauteng.

COORDINATES

Metric

S: 26’ 16’232”

E: 30’ 15’529 or

Imperial

S: 26’ 16.387

E: 30’ 15.882

Direction: 17 / 35 North/South

Airplane trips over the Lake District

Background

Every year for the past 20 years, Nico has played a role in fire fighting with his spotter aircraft, a Cessna 182 during the winter months (June to October). Nico is a commercial pilot with more than 2 000 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 spotter plane pilot at the Warburton fire-fighting base (about 28km from Florence). When he turned 50 in 2009, he took on a new challenge, and obtained his commercial helicopter license.

Florence Guest Farm Guests

Florence Guest Farm guests are welcome to take a ride to see the Lake District from the air. It is worthwhile! I would like to compare it with the Okavango 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

R800 for a flight of 30 minutes, three persons maximum with the Cessna 182.

Directions to the Warburton fire-fighting base

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.


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