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Our People
Cape Town Flying Club has several highly qualified full-time instructors, as well as a number of part-timers. This ensures that you will be able to find an instructor suited to your schedule and learning style. Most students settle down happily with the first instructor allocated to them, but changes are possible where required.
The common feature in all our flying staff is their dedication to the task of turning out safe, competent pilots. Our full-time professional instructors have chosen a career in flying instruction and are not there to build hours to land that elusive airline job. Our part-time instructors are usually employed as pilots somewhere else and instruct in their spare time for the Club to pass on some of their vast aeronautical knowledge. The odd part-time instructor has chosen another career as his/her primary occupation, but holds enough love for flying to dedicate weekends to instructing for the Club. We have no interest in employing instructors whose concern is to build up their own hours at the expense of their students.
Office Staff · Instructors · Cleaning Staff · Club Members
Chief Flying Instructor
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Morne Kleinhans Morne started flying with Cape Aero Club in 1995 where he completed all his training. Before becoming a flight instructor in 2003 he assisted the club with flight safety duties and flight operations. As an instructor he is able to share his passion for flying and safety with students on a daily basis. |
Office Staff
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Beverley Combrink Bev joined the Club in November 2006 after a long career working for doctors. Bev runs our reception area and if you need anything, she is always available to help you. Her friendly smile, happy nature and organizational skills ensure that the members are well taken care of. She is married to Nick and they have 4 Rottweilers and a 3m long Burmese python called Leila. Once you get to know Bev, you will realize she is not scared of anything except mice. |
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Hilda Kallis Hilda has been with the club since 1994 and is very fond of all her pilots, old and new. She takes care of the financial side of the club, pays the bills and makes sure that all our pilots pay for their flying on time. |
Maintenance Officer
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Nicole Innes
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Instructors
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Pieter Wesselman Pieter has around 17,000 hours of which about 12,000 are instructions. That speaks volumes for his commitment to training new pilots. He is possibly the highest-time pilot on Piper Tomahawks, our primary trainers, and can fly them better than anybody else. Pieter looks after our foreign students and pilots and helps them settle in, assists them with flight planning and generally provides them with the services that make their stay with us successful. |
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Michelle Mann Michelle was a member of both CAC and GHFC and is now instructing with this amalgamated Club, Cape Town Flying Club. Michelle has 1000 hours and also lectures at the Ground School for Commercial Pilots Subjects. |
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Gareth Pinnock Gareth has been a member of the club since starting to fly in 2002. He served on the club committee since 2004, before recently crossing over to serve the club as an instructor. He still flies for fun, and is waiting to do his aerobatic rating as soon as possible. |
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Peter Erasmus Peter has been instructing at the Club since 1996. His is one of the part-time instructors who instructs in the evenings and on weekends. He has clocked up over 4200 flying hours, is a lawyer and works in the legal field during the week. |
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Tony Russell Tony received his PPL from Good Hope Flying Club in 1987 and became a commercial pilot in 1999. After flying for pleasure for years, he became an instructor in 2003. He started working at Cape Town Flying Club in October 2006 and now has 1600 hours, 600 of which are instruction. He works at the club on the weekends and some evenings of the week. He lectures ATP Navigation and Plotting for Deal Alliance. During the week Tony is involved in his IT Consulting business. |
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Jared Seymour-Hall |
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Eduard Cornelissen |
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Pierre Myburgh |
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Marius Smit Marius traded a career in the IT industry in for the life long dream of flying for a living. He started flying in 2004 and finished his commercial license and instructors rating with Cape Town Flying Club. He now instructs part time with CTFC, and hopes to become a full time instructor in the near future. |
Cleaning Staff
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Andries Poki and Peter Zonke Andries and Peter are our faithful cleaners of aeroplanes and keeper tidy of premises. This does NOT mean that we are entitled to leave the aircraft in anything other than a pristine, tied-down state! |
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Linda Kolosa Linda is responsible for making sure our premises are tidy and clean. Again, this does NOT mean we can leave the club in disarray! |
Club Members
CTFC has approx 300 members, some more active than others. The committee comprises 6 people, all of whom fly actively as well as being involved in organisation and decision making. Active commitment to the promotion and success of the club is not limited to this small group, and input from any of our pilots is welcome.
Additionally, events are held regularly to bring our pilots together in a flying environment where they can practise their skills with (or against) one another.
Email: info@capetownflyingclub.co.za · Phone: +27 (21) 934-0257 · Fax: +27 (21) 934-0827
Address: Cape Town Flying Club, P.O. Box 31, Cape Town International Airport, 7525
