Cessna Grand Caravan Adventure to Kenya's Masai Mara with Safarilink
Cessna Grand Caravan Adventure to Kenya's Masai Mara with Safarilink
In this video we fly from Nairobi’s Wilson Airport to a small dirt airstrip in Kenya’s Masai Mara, see what it takes to keep wildlife off the runways, and then head back to Nairobi with a couple of stops enroute. Airfields visited include Mara Naboisho (Ol Seki Airstrip), Olari Airstrip, and Mara North Conservancy Airstrip. Our ride for all…
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What a trip! I thoroughly enjoyed it. I am in NE Ohio where the only wildlife I see are squirrels and deer. Note: it appears that the ¨gear¨ on this aircraft does not go ¨up¨ in flight; it is visible @ 4:03…
Having flown that exact aircraft to Ol seki for a vacation this bought back some amazing memories – thank you!
Were u able to take all ur luggage on flight?
Southern Airways Express flies Cessna Grand Caravans from IAD to various small regional airports in Pennsylvania. Living near IAD, I often see the aircraft flying by.
Thank you Gabriel for taking me on a beautiful flight to Kenya and Nome on another flight. From flying single engines to commercial jets, so real when you are in touch with the basics real flights at one with the flight deck, the environment, humbling.
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When you come back to Nairobi, hit me up
Welcome home . My Country Kenya. karibu sana
Living in Alaska, I get to fly on the Grand Caravan quite a bit. It’s a regional workhorse around here, with airlines such as Ravn and Alaska Seaplanes having large fleets of them. For me, it’s always been more bumpy taxing on the ground than in the air 😆
The Caravan is a great plane. Nice episode.
Then we pray when they crash.
Good job
Wonderful video man!
Wonderful memories of my trip in 2016 to Mara, Samburu and the rhino camp.
Awesome. Thank you for taking us along on a flight most of us will never experience in real life. Fascinating lifestyle.
That was a neat flight !! Great to see u flying around
Wow, that takes me back to 2005, when I flew on this airline & plane to and from Mara. Amazing!
That brought back very fond memories of flying these aircraft and routes on an almost weekly basis to visit suppliers out in the bush when I worked in Kenya a few years ago. Cheers & thanks again for such a wonderfully edited and narrated trip report
I'm here for the aviation videos, but am thrilled to see some lions and giraffes!!
I have flown on them 4 times in Madagascar with MAF. The first and Second time was out to a remote village to the west of Tana. It was a chartered flight with 5 passengers and two 4 wheelers. That was crazy fun. Flights 3 and 4 were from Tana to Mahjanga on the Northwest Corner of the island. Here again it was a charter and we had a full plane. Loads of fun. I agree it is not a quiet airplane at all and can be a little rough but still fun to ride.
Awesome!!
What an Adventure! Thanks for the ride!
WOW Gabriel, now you are talking! Great video of a place in the world that I have not been. The Cessna Caravan has truly been a huge success for Cessna. I loved your seat, I soloed in a Cessna 152. This is a MUCH bigger "high wing" with the fabulous PT6 engine upfront. BTW great video of the animals. Thanks again sir.
TRAFFIC
❤️ thanks
Always neat to go to a place I will never see with you. Thank you for you great flying films.
What a coincidence! 8 years ago I used to drive up and down Ol Seki airstrip (Naboisho) to clear the animals off. I have flown on 5Y-SLG and visited the amazing Ol Kinyei Conservancy dozens of times despite being from London. Bit of a surprise seeing this pop up in my flightradar email! Great that you got to see some wildlife!
May never fly this route but enjoyed the ride with you! Thanks.
I fly it a lot in my flight simulator, does that count? I miss the motion/bumps.
Bush flying is Kenya’s great aviation…
I've flown with them 4 times' each time a great flight. view of Kilimanjaro is always special 👍👍👍
Occasionally I have this pipe dream where I give up my airline Captain job (and all the stress that comes with it) to fly Caravans in Africa…
supercool
Awesome video Gabriel, thank you.👍
African aviation is quite an interesting one.