This document provides an overview of Airborne Insurance Consultants' activities in the past year. It discusses their successful year and growth, including welcoming new team members and partnering with Econorisk. It highlights some unusual insurance claims involving animals and accidents. It also lists the various aviation events Airborne sponsored or participated in over the year, including hosting fly-ins, sponsoring air shows, and attending conferences. The document wishes clients a happy holiday season and looks forward to continued success in 2017.

1. INSIGHTS FROM AFRICA’S FASTEST GROWING AVIATION BROKERAGE
A I R B R N E
INSURANCE CONSULTANTS
Seasons� Greetings from Airborne Insurance
With Christmas and the New Year just around the corner, it is perhaps the ideal time to reflect on the year that was, the challenges we have overcome and the
many successes we have celebrated. Once again, it has been a busy but rewarding year - one that has quite literally flown past!
Ultimately, our success lies in the ongoing support from our loyal clients, insurers and suppliers around the country. Thank you for partnering with us, and
enabling us to deliver the most effective aviation insurance solutions and services that we possibly can. Our exclusive Client Appreciation Day, held in May at
Lanseria International Airport, was testament to the wonderful relationships that we have built up over the years. It was the ideal opportunity to spoil all of our
business partners whilst celebrating in style, all things aviation.
This year we welcomed a number of new faces to the Airborne team, and partnered with Econorisk to provide our clients with all of their aviation, corporate,
commercial, marine and domestic insurance needs under one banner.
We are privileged to work in an exciting industry, and this year proved no different! From tracking and darting Sylvester the lion in the Karoo National Park,
retrieving a wrecked UN Humanitarian Air Service plane in the swamps of South Sudan, to crashing one’s helicopter whilst conducting an aerial survey of a
remote Bearded Vulture site in the mountains, our clients did not disappoint!
Aviation is our passion, and as a result Airborne is heavily entrenched in the local aviation and insurance scene. This year, once again, we sponsored the
annual President’s Trophy Air Race. Added to this, we hosted a Spring Day Bundu Breakfast Fly-In, sponsored the pilot’s tent at the annual Bethlehem Airshow,
took part in the Absolute Beechcraft and Cessna Fly-In, participated in the first-ever Children’s Flight and attended South Africa’s inaugural Drone Conference.
Our lovely lasses have been regular participants and sponsors at the various Gauteng Women in Insurance functions held throughout the year, as well as taking
part in a number of Corporate Social Investment initiatives such as the recent Santa Shoebox Project.
From all of us at Airborne Insurance, we would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our clients a happy, safe and peaceful festive season with your family,
friends and loved ones. We look forward to another busy and exciting year in 2017, and bringing world-class aviation insurance solutions to the African
continent.
Happy holidays!
From Scott, Debbie, Jacques and the rest of the Airborne team
GAUTENG WOMEN IN INSURANCE GOLF DAY
On the 1st October, Airborne participated in the inaugural Gauteng Women in Insurance Golf Day. The event was held at the beautiful CMR Golf
Club, where we were welcomed with strawberry and mint water flavoured with a dash of Smirnoff. This set the scene for the rest of the day, where
lots of fun was had at the various watering holes sponsored by the likes of Emerald and Hollard. Nine holes were played throughout the course
of the day, with the last hole being played as the sun set, making for a beautiful view. Prize giving and some delicious snacks where served in the
clubhouse after the game. We look forward to participating in this enjoyable event again next year!
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A I R B R N E
INSURANCE CONSULTANTS
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TEAM AIRBORNE AT THE GRAND CENTRAL FUN NAV RALLY 2015
On the morning of the 3rd of October,
Airborne’s Jonathan Smook and Janice Ray
arrived at Grand Central Aerodrome in
Midrand to beautiful sunny weather and clear
skies – the perfect weather conditions for a
Nav Rally.
After a quick cup of coffee and breakfast,
the team received their blank map and clue
sheet required to work out and plot their
points. With some advice and guidance from
the professional class navigation pilots who
organised the event, the teams set off. This
entailed locating the starting point, each turn
point as well as the finish point by deciphering
a set of cryptic clues. Thereafter each team had
to measure the bearings required for every leg,
and then familiarise themselves with each turn
point as well as reviewing the enroute photos
that were needed to spot and mark on the map
along the route.
After a short safety briefing, all of the
participants received their timing sheets in
order to plot in the exact times that they had to
be over all the turn points. Having nominated
a speed of 100 knots on the Cessna 182
that Janice and Jonathan were flying, team
Airborne was the fastest aircraft in the group
on the day, making navigating and photo
identification slightly more difficult with less
time to identify each point.
At exactly 10:30am, Janice and Jonathan got
airborne of runway 35 at Grand Central and
made their way to the start point. Once over
the start point the fun began, with both team
members looking all around in order to spot
the enroute photos and locate the next turn
point, whilst simultaneously keeping an eye on
the stopwatch to reference if they were on time
for the next turn point.
After crossing the finish line Janice and
Jonathan joined Grand Central and started
configuring the aircraft for the spot landing that
was to follow. A white chalk line was drawn
across the runway in line with the PAPIs, with
teams penalised for every metre they landed
before or after the line. After the spot landing,
everyone made their way back to the Harvard
Café to hand in their loggers and await the
final results.
At the prize giving that followed, team
Airborne achieved a notable second place –
even more impressive when one considers that
both Janice and Jonathan are still very new to
this kind of event. What a great effort guys
and a job very well done! Airborne Insurance
sponsored the second and third prizes at the
event, which, judging by the beaming smiles
on everyone’s faces as they disembarked and
the friendly chatter between teams, was very
much enjoyed.