Small Flying Operation Based In St Francis Bay

by | Mar 6, 2022 | St Francis | 12 comments

My name is Nick Burrows, I am originally from PE and I have been living in CT for the last 9 years.
I am a pilot, ex Mango with 5 years of bush flying experience in Botswana and 11 years’ experience in the airline industry.  During COVID I had an idea to start a small flying operation based in St Francis Bay.

My family and I moved to St Francis in Jan 2022 in hope that this idea would be successful.  The plan is to operate a PC12 out of St Francis Bay Airfield adhering to their procedures and rules.  This is in discussion and we still need to determine if this is at all feasible.

Please can you take the time to fill out the spreadsheet (link provided below).  This will help us to gauge if there is any appetite for this operation to be a success. There is a comment box at the end so feel free to comment.

https://bit.ly/3IM2Frl

Please share the link with all who you think will be interested.

Regards,
Nick

 

 

12 Comments

  1. john
    john on March 7, 2022 at 8:27 am

    semi retired and must fly at least once every 2 months up
    to pretoria.

  2. oloff van niekerk
    oloff van niekerk on March 7, 2022 at 8:39 am

    I will support flights between Jhb and St francis

  3. Antoine
    Antoine on March 7, 2022 at 9:40 am

    Ek hoor te veel vliegtuie in die laaste tyd. Die vliegveld is te naby of die vliegtuie vlieg onnodig oor woonbuurte.

  4. Craig Bradley
    Craig Bradley on March 8, 2022 at 6:38 am

    Great idea Nick, that would cut so many wasted hours out of getting to and from JNB

  5. Wolfram Oelschlägel
    Wolfram Oelschlägel on March 8, 2022 at 8:59 am

    We support your offer and would use SFB-JHB flights at least 3 times a year

  6. Kevin Clack
    Kevin Clack on March 9, 2022 at 11:28 am

    I would look at flights between CT and St Francis

  7. Chris
    Chris on March 10, 2022 at 10:06 am

    When the airpark was built, we were promised that it would remain private. This is the start of commercialism and it should not be allowed. I live in CsF and continually battle about low flying aircraft over the village. We were assured that planes would not do this, but to no avail. Please don’t allow this development to happen.

    • Geoffrey Wood
      Geoffrey Wood on March 14, 2022 at 5:55 pm

      Uk Canal home owner for more than 2O years I would certainly explore the opportunity to fly JHB and SFB

  8. Sandy
    Sandy on March 14, 2022 at 10:49 am

    Great idea !!

  9. Michelle
    Michelle on March 14, 2022 at 1:02 pm

    I do not fly regularly sadly but am sure it would help a lot of folks traveling in and out of town for business. The last few years SFB had seen a number of new residents as we learned that a lot of us can do our work remotely. The village is growing and we have to grow with it.

  10. Debbie Blackburn
    Debbie Blackburn on March 14, 2022 at 1:19 pm

    Interested in flights to Joburg and Oribi ( PMB)

  11. Gerrit van Zyl
    Gerrit van Zyl on March 20, 2022 at 9:27 pm

    Any chance that it would extend to CTN??