A day in the life of a pilot in Kenya who juggles chartering the wealthiest 1% and celebrities like Sir David Attenborough on ‘heli-safaris’ with crop-spraying and rescue missions

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Jamie Roberts, 57, owns charter company Tropic Air in Nanyuki in northern Kenya. Born and brought up in the area, where his father was a crocodile hunter who turned to fish farming, he’s been involved in aviation on and off ever since he left school at 15.

Roberts started working for a local farmer handling machine maintenance at his various farms, and learned to fly to make it quicker and easier to commute between the far-flung locales. He eventually parlayed that experience into his own aviation company, read more ⇒

Source:: BusinessInsider.Com