The present team of Instructors.
LOVELY LITTLE KATIE ALEXANDER
On Friday the 16th July 2010, Jason and Robynne were blessed by the arrival of a beautiful baby girl whom they named Katie.
Welcome to the PFS family little Katie!
We look forward to watching you and little Chene Zeelie growing up at PFS.
(And by the way, we know exactly who’s your Daddy! (Look at [...]
Congratulations Ricus! We are very proud to say that you are now part of the PFS team. We know that many future students will turn out to be safe, competent pilots due to your professional training.
Many happy landings for you and I personally hope that the Airlines won’t call you too soon. And until they do, [...]
Congratulations to Tiaan and Roline who got engaged last weekend!
The PFS family is growing nicely and we are very happy that Roline now belongs to us formally.
We are looking forward to the wedding and lots of babies now that Charlie and Nicole has broken the ice.
On Wednesday, 21st April 2010 at 13H27, little Chenè Zeelie was born.
I’m not even her granny and I think she is the prettiest little thing I ever saw!
We wish Charles and Nicole a life-time of joy, health and happiness with their little girl. And of course the PFS family plan to turn her into Amelia Earheart II.
“After finishing high school, I hadn’t yet decided on a career-path to follow and decided to take a gap-year. I went to Canada to work on a rugby summer camp as I knew that this would generate some very welcome income and also give me an opportunity to experience life abroad. When I got back after a [...]
I grew up one block away from Swartkop Airforce base in Centurion, Pretoria and woke up every morning to the sound of Skymasters and Dakota’s warming their engines at the holding point of runway 02. My father worked for Armscor and Denel and served overseas in Italy and France, working on the Impala and C160 Transall [...]
Tiaan virtually grew up on an Airport as his mother was a Human Resources Manager for South African Airways when he was small. He spent many hours at Jan Smuts Airport (now O R Tambo International) avidly watching the big planes come and go. When he was about seven years old his father asked him what he [...]
On Mother’s Day, 10th May 2009, Tanya was awarded the Grade III Instructor’s Rating. Tanya was trained by Tiaan van Jaarsveld who put a great deal of effort and commitment into Tanya’s training to ensure that she would satisfy the very high standard required by our Chief Flight Instructor and Designated Examiner, Jean-Marc Chelin.
Tanya will [...]
BLOG INTERVIEW WITH JEAN-MARC CHELIN
JEAN-MARC CHELIN
When did you become involved with Pretoria Flying School?
As I page through my logbook I see that my first flight at the premises was on 24 Feb 1986 with instructor Graham Gush. I do not think it was Pretoria flying School yet. After training as flying instructor, I returned to [...]
Shaun knew from a very young age that flying was all he wanted to do. At the tender age of seven he was obviously too young for formal flight training and started flying radio control models instead. It is still one of his favourite hobbies. In 2002 he won the S A Masters in a discipline called [...]