Jim Davis has 15,000 hours of immensely varied flying experience, including 10,000 hours civil and military flying instruction. He is an established author, his current projects being an instructors’ manual and a collection of Air Accident analyses, called ‘Choose not to Crash’.
Aiming to make safer pilots of us, here veteran instructor Jim Davis looks at extracts from official CAA Accident Reports from his homeland of South Africa and analyses why things went wrong and how we may all avoid making similar mistakes.
This discussion is to promote safety and not to establish liability. CAA’s report contains padding and repetition, so in the interest of clarity, the author has paraphrased extensively.
Aircraft registration: ZS-PZT
Date and time of accident: 8 October 2018 at 0920Z
: Cessna C172L
