Bill McKee wrote:


Hmmm - crossing mountains and desert in a piston single.
Not the cleverest of ideas.
Is this even legal in the USofA ?, it would certainly be illegal over
the Namib or the Kalahari.

I would think so - it was written in the USofA by an USofA reporter
and the last time I checked Bend, OR was in the USofA.


Lots of singles crossing the Kalahari from what I see in pictures.

I should have been more specific, the Kalahari is a big place.
Singles operate into the outer regions of the kalahari which extend
into South Africa and parts of southern Namibia.
Most of the Kalahari lies in Botswana, for this you need multi-engine
aircraft, a special desert rating, specified survival kit, and recent
appoved survival training for all occupants. Scheduled airlines have
different rules, IFR is mandatory and departure from approved airways
prohibited.
The same rules apply to the Namib, which extends from the Kalahari to
the appropriately named Skeleton Coast.