August 2024: Edition 23
Edition 23 was released in August 2024. Since the regulations were changed to not allow any aircraft to land at an airfield that is not either licenced or registered many more airfields have been registered – so that it now exceeds the scope of this book to list every registered airfield in Appendix 1. Therefore only those airfields with ICAO location indicators and/or allocated frequencies are listed in Appendix 1.
Furthermore, the Cape Town CTA A vertical boundary was changed, Malelane and Sabi Sands Special Rules Areas were added, VFR limits for helicopters changed, there was a change to the True Airspeed variation from the flight planned one, and the Approach Ban criteria were updated.
February 2023: Edition 22
Edition 22 was released in February 2023. Non-Directional Beacons (NDBs) are being phased out worldwide and existing ones in South Africa are not supported anymore, so the paragraph on NDBs has been just about deleted. Navigation with the help of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) as well as GNSS instrument approach procedures are becoming more prevalent and this is reflected in the relevant chapters. Also, in Appendix 1, some more help is being given in finding the relevant airfield information in the Aeronautical Information Publication (AIP) and on the SACAA website.
April 2021: Edition 21
Edition 21 was released in April 2021. The chapter on airspaces has been re-organised and rewritten, some notes on flying the circuit have been added, Marshalling signals and airport signals have been expanded, and the airport list has been extensively updated as usual.
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