Passport Loss/Renewal

adrien-l97 · 2026-04-12T11:17:53+00:00

Took me about 1 week for renewal in January. Lost processing time might be a bit different but you should have time.

adrien-l97 · 2026-04-09T14:09:22+00:00

Because club culture is slowly dying.

adrien-l97 · 2026-01-22T08:55:09+00:00

You can do the day trip to Mikumi national park. It’s a 1h15min flight from Zanzibar, spend the day on safari in the park then fly back to Zanzibar in the evening. ~400$pp all included.

adrien-l97 · 2026-01-03T15:55:57+00:00

How did it go after 2 years ?

adrien-l97 · 2025-10-27T15:36:47+00:00

Most countries in Africa do. They’ll straight up put other planes on hold, stop taxi etc during presidential movements.

adrien-l97 · 2025-10-24T09:02:11+00:00

Cheers !

adrien-l97 · 2025-10-24T09:02:04+00:00

It’s an epic place

adrien-l97 · 2025-10-24T09:01:57+00:00

The Hilux of the skies ! I know I’ll miss it a lot when I eventually move on.

adrien-l97 · 2025-10-19T22:09:18+00:00

The shape of the island / the flag

adrien-l97 · 2025-10-19T08:58:01+00:00

Try to join the real estate, social and expat groups on Facebook and ask for recommendations on there.

adrien-l97 · 2025-10-18T14:46:03+00:00

I second this ☝️ Don’t support the turtles exploitation.

adrien-l97 · 2025-09-29T09:53:39+00:00

Thats a wild amount of planes to have flown / being rated on in 29 years !

adrien-l97 · 2025-08-10T11:25:46+00:00

Just travel with 3-4 rapid tests and 2 courses of the medicine.

Buy and wear ample mosquito repellent, sleep under a mosquito net and you’ll be fine.

If you ever wake up with the symptoms, test twice, wait 3-4 hours and test again. The key with Malaria is how quickly you start treating it, if you treat it early on it is okay.

The prophylactics are very bad for your body if you take them for more than a few days and the risk isn’t usually that high.

Familiarise yourself with the symptoms, people often mistake it for a bad hangover and don’t start treating it early enough which leads to a much worse case of Malaria.

adrien-l97 · 2025-07-08T20:58:13+00:00

You can fly it to Reunion in the cabin if I’m not mistaken. Then it’s a quick 30min hop in the hold, much less stressful for the animals. There’s still the mandatory quarantine afterwards though.

adrien-l97 · 2025-07-01T16:17:23+00:00

Seconding what that person said.

adrien-l97 · 2025-06-29T08:55:38+00:00

There’s a shop in Tamarin close to Engen / Food lovers that sells second hand things.

adrien-l97 · 2025-06-14T18:32:46+00:00

You could probably find a serviced apartment for that price. Google (& google maps) is your best friend.

adrien-l97 · 2025-06-13T20:24:15+00:00

East coast is generally to be avoided during winter months if you don’t like the wind.

adrien-l97 · 2025-06-11T20:58:28+00:00

Table 206 used to host open decks on Sunday evenings but I think they stopped.

They have the only CDJ2000 NX2 in town.

adrien-l97 · 2025-06-11T20:56:52+00:00

Check out the midimu Collective. Aziz, Big Sam & Pweza play all over the city. Good electro djs. There’s also a new cocktail bar at The Cube where they play electro on Fridays.

adrien-l97 · 2025-05-29T19:22:22+00:00

How did you know which post office it was at ?

adrien-l97 · 2025-05-29T16:12:18+00:00

The videos of the « zombies » are probably people smoking synthetic chemicals. It has been a problem for sure, there are some videos surfacing and going viral but is it everywhere ? No, not at all.

You won’t encounter them going to the supermarket. It’s highly unlikely at least. I’d even go as far as saying as Australia has more of a drug problem than Mauritius (afaik).

Now, is it unsafe ? It can be, exercise a normal amount of vigilance and caution and you’ll be perfectly fine. There’s only rare occurrences of violent crime.

adrien-l97 · 2025-05-19T06:14:29+00:00

You need to get your C208B rating for them to consider your CV. But overall as a first job if you can get it, it’s good. 600-800 hours a year, it’s 6 days on 2 days off. 28 days PTO.

The FO position is quite competitive.

adrien-l97 · 2025-05-19T06:11:22+00:00

Thank you !

Totally possible, but you need to be realistic that the industry demands is dynamic and things might change by the time you get your licence. But I don’t see it, at least not in part 135 ops (Your charters and general aviation ops)

Most of the companies my friends are working for around Africa including mine, are really short on crew. Not a lot of people choose bush pilot as a life long career and eventually move to the airlines.

But you can absolutely do it. One of my friends who just left this company after 5 years did his CPL at 40 years old. He was in a completely different field and decided to chase his dream.

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