Due to the inconvenient, time consuming and costly South African CAA validation process we have decided to re-register certain aircraft operated by us in Swaziland. The Swazi validation process is much more simple.
All you'll need to do is mail or email us a high resolution certified copy of your pilot license, radio operators license, medical certificate, last 2 pages of your log book plus a summary of your flight experience and we will have your Certificate of Validation processed for you prior to your arrival. The cost of this is R700.
Upon arrival, all you'll need to do is a quick check-flight, after which you're ready to set off.
If doing the bushpilot course the check-flight will form an integral part of the course.
Note: Allow 14 days for the processing of your documents.
South African registered aircraft ("ZS")
Note: The SA CAA has recently changed their regulations regarding the licence validation. Under these new regulations, applications need to be made a minimum of THREE MONTHS in advance as the licence needs to be verified with the issuing authority...
Note: The regulations regarding SA validations change quite frequently, please contact us to verify the correctness of this information.
Anyone with a foreign license wanting to fly a South African registered aircraft will unfortunately need to deal with the costly bureaucracy of getting their license validated. We'll minimize the hassle as much as possible:
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You email or fax us a copy of your pilot's license, radio licence if seperate, medical and the relevant pages of your log book at least three months in advance and we'll send these to the CAA for verification with the issuing authority.
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You send by post a certified true copy of above documents, 2 ID photos, a completed application form, and the relevant fee, which we will forward to the CAA once the licence has been verified.
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The validation is issued before your arrival, with the following endorsement:
For private day VFR operations only, provided the holder first successfully completes an appropriate South African Air Law examination and a flight test at an
approved ATO, with a Grade I or ll flight instructor.
1. The Air Law Examination.
This 25 question, multiple choice exam used to be relatively simple, but since the CAA changed their exam syllabus it has become somewhat more difficult. Decent preperation is required. The passmark is 75%.
We'll send you the book on SA air law so that you can review this before arriving in SA.
2. A practical flight test.
You must pass a flight test of about 2-3 hrs on the aircraft type you wish to be validated on.
This is a basic test of your proficiency on that particular aircraft type, and will include steep turns, stalls, forced landings, a triangular cross country flight and other basic checks.
On top of this you'll need to be rated on the specific type of aircraft you wish to fly. This means at least 2hrs time on type in your logbook.
In theory you could complete the flight test and air law exam within a day, however rather allow a minimum of two days for bad weather or other unforeseen obstacles. The more time you have the better, there is enough to do in and around Johannesburg and Cape Town once the validation process is complete.
The SA validation is valid for three months, but can be extended by a year upon completion of the airlaw exam and flight test, as long as your foreign license and medical remain valid.
Собственно, сайт SA CAA - http://www.caa.co.za/. Пока внимательно не смотрел, возможно, что там некие уточнения и упрощения (либо наоборот).
Внизу прилеплена стандартная анкета, которую нужно отослать заранее для того, чтобы потом не заниматься ожиданием.
В целом, по слухам и словам очевидцев, вполне достаточно 2 дней, которые можно сократить, настойчиво и лично появившись в локальном представительстве SA CAA.
Прошу поделиться тайнами процесса, собственно и подсказать, как это сделать попроще. Знаю, что такие имеются.
Также интересуют школы, готовые на территории ЮАР предоставлять в аренду R-44. На данный момент пока что знаю одну контору - http://www.base4.co.za/ . Кто-нибудь подскажет еще что-нибудь? Тема уже поднималась, но результата не принесла. Посему начнем всерьез и заново.