Flying over Amboseli

One of the great joys of living in this beautiful country is the relative freedom of the skies for aviators (and birds, of course). Join me in a flip over Amboseli.

Back in 2004, when Martyn Colbeck and Cynthia were filming 'Echo 3', Martyn asked me do so some flying for the film. He asked if they could give me something for my time, and I said, no, just cut me a DVD of some of the shots. Well, he did much more than that: he got the producing company, Mike Birkhead Associates, to edit this lovely little montage. They even added the aerial theme music from the film Out of Africa. I'm hugely grateful to Martyn and Mike: I'm now some kind of aviation hero to my kids and grandkids. The sequence, as Colin Davies, owner of Hotel-Zulu, the Cessna 206, put it, "brought tears to the eyes" of a group of crusty Kenya bush pilots at dinner one night at his house.

Enjoy the flight!

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