At the start of the day, we did not know whether we were going to get fuel or not. Phil called Sam Rutherford after our early breakfast. He thought the problem had been resolved and a while later, we received a call from the handler to say that avgas was now at the aircraft. The handler sent a car to collect us and sure enough, there was avgas of sorts.
Out with the pump and various willing helpers from Bestfly, our handling agents, and it was soon loaded for a departure soon after midday, local time. Our course to Ondanga in Namibia was essentially straight line; there was altocumulus and altostratus above us, scattered cumulus below with the occasional TCU or CB around. As we went south, the sky started to clear slowly and minor CU buildups were easily avoided. I flew this leg at FL110. Luanda approach signed us off at 60 miles south of Luanda and there was radio silence for the next 500 miles.
We had a slight tailwind so a marginally quicker flight than planned for. Ondangwa tower is closed at weekends so after cancelling IFR with Windhoek Information, it was blind calls on the tower frequency to join and land.
We were refuelled in 20 minutes at just over £1/litre, paid very modest landing fees, spoke to a friendly policeman who gave us the customs number to call and were at our hotel within an hour.
Bad start to the day ending up good. We hoped to be in Walvis Bay this evening but will fly there tomorrow morning to catch up with our schedule.
Luanda to Ondangwa: 565 nm in 3 hr 45 min