Dear Frank and the Trustees of Kitty Hawk,
It is with much appreciation that I write
to thank you for allowing us to host the 2nd Aviation
and Security Policing training programme at your
lovely Kitty Hawk Airfield. After the success of
the 1st training session we held at Kitty Hawk in
March, the SAPS again approached me to hold a training
day there. It only took a phone call to you Frank
and everything was laid on.
Once again I thank you
for your generous sponsorship of sandwiches and
drinks provided by Wilma and her team. The restaurant
was set up as a lecture hall for us and made a huge
difference to the way I could present the the lecture
part of the day.
As the training day had
to be held on a Friday, it was difficult to get
aircraft lined up for the inspection and search
training. However, Nigel Musgrave, Dawie, Andrew
Evans and Mike Beekman all pitched in to assist.
We had visitors Theo Truter and Piet Botha also
help as well as my fellow EAA members Nick Brits
from Zynkraal, Duncan McKellar, Andrew Evans, Rob
Jonkers and Mike Hofman helping.
There was
a line-up of an RV-8, 2 Tripacers, a Cessna 170,
a Cessna 182, a Jabiru and a Challenger on the ramp
despite the event taking place on a weekday.
After the training ended, many of the police
trainees were given short flights in the aircraft.
This was not planned, but it certainly was appreciated
by all and I thank those of you who so generously
stepped forward for this fun.
As promised
at the previous training day, African Pilot and
Pilot’s Post featured the event and gave good publicity
to our work. The Pilot’s Post article is still available
at
http://www.pilotspost.com/arn0000930 and
the African Pilot report at
http://www.africanpilot.co.za/african-pilot-aviation-news-11-2016.html
I do believe that in assisting in the Aviation
and Security Policing training programme, we improve
relations with the police in their essential work
and also provide an insight for the police into
the sensitivity of ramp inspections.
I would
like everyone to know that I have no ties with the
SAPS and carry out their request for practical training
strictly voluntarily without any financial reward.
There are a lot of infrastructure shortfalls in
our country and I believe we should all put our
shoulders to the wheel and try and help fix them.
Kind regards
Karl Jensen – EAA Chapter
322 Johannesburg
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