After eight years as a pilot in the Royal Navy flying jet aircraft from the decks of aircraft carriers, the writer moved to a new challenge---that of starting a farm in the wilds of the African bush in Northern Rhodesia. After nearly twenty years as a successful farmer growing tobacco and maize and ranching some four hundred cattle on an adjoining farm the "e;Winds of Change"e; forced him to return to the flying world. Starting as a "e;Charter pilot"e; in Zambia he ended his career flying and teaching pilots in the BAC 1-11 aircraft in Cyprus.