Monthly Archives: April 2012
Not taking things too seriously
I realised I haven’t posted anything about what I’m currently reading for a long time. Hence, here is a post… with a difference. The ‘serious’ stuff that I’m reading (some paeds anaesthesia from Smith’s and Miller’s; The Naked Pilot by David Beaty, a work on the human factors in aviation safety; and “Come Up and [...]
We apologise for the interruption in service
Readers will have noted that the blog has been down for a couple of days. There was a problem with one of the mail accounts on the hosting server being hijacked by a spambot, which resulted in the entire host account being suspended. Fortunately this has now been resolved. You can follow @rosshofmeyr on Twitter [...]
Another Hofmeyr Adventure(r)
We Hof’s are fairly well known to be difficult to pin down w for too long: the call of the wild is too strong to resist. My younger brother Stephen (not to be confused with the singer of the same name) is no exception. Although he is often to be found tweaking a PC or [...]
The Eternal Artist at work
Coming on duty for a night call is certainly easier when this is the view through the floor-to-ceiling window…
Zee PHG
Reading my last post, I realised I alluded to the Zee PHG photo without actually publishing it. Daft. Here you go: While the uninitiated might presume this tiny aircraft to be a microlight, it is actually a powered (aka motorized) hang-glider – the wing is a perfectly normal standard hang-glider with which (unlike a microlight) [...]
Whale Shark Aerial Photos
Yowzer…I loaded the same pictures from my last post onto Facebook last night, and the response has been phenomenal. Imagine my surprise when I get a forwarded forwarded forwarded email from the surf community including my picture as evidence of a huge shark terrorising the surfers at Noordhoek! Well, lads and lasses, a big shark [...]
Very special sighting
Short story (longer one to follow): I was joined this morning by a fellow powered hang-glider pilot for a sortie from Hout Bay, on the western coast of the Cape Peninsula. Due to my current lack of a PHG, I was flying my PPG while he took to the sky in a Zee PHG trike [...]
