Open letter · Global gyro owners
You bought the wings. We built the continent to fly them on.
An invitation to take a Founder seat in Africa's first private gyrocopter club — capped at 50 owners worldwide.
From the founders of Heron Africa & MySky.africa
The letter
To every owner of a gyrocopter — wherever in the world you keep her.
You bought her for the dream. Coastlines, deserts, deltas, bush. The kind of country no airliner ever shows you and no 4×4 will ever take you to. That was the brochure. That was the YouTube edit. That was the reason the cheque got signed.
Then most of you flew her 30 to 60 hours a year, same home strip, same 50nm of weekend airspace. Not because you stopped wanting more — because moremeant a freight forwarder, a customs broker, a ferry pilot, an insurance rewrite, a foreign AOC, fuel chains in three languages and lodge bookings you do yourself. The dream became logistics. The logistics became the hangar.
We built MySky.africa to end that — and we built it for the roughly 5,000 to 7,000 of you with a gyroplane registered somewhere on earth. One club, one continent, your aircraft or ours, one invoice per trip that includes the AOC, the customs, the fuel, the insurance and the lodge. You arrive. You fly.
Founder seats are capped at 50 globally.The first twelve are reserved by invitation. This letter is how the rest are filled.
— The founders, MySky.africa & Heron Africa
Section 1 — What you get
The Founder 5-Year package, in plain English.
No marketing fluff. The exact inclusions. Capped at 50 seats globally for the life of the founding tier.
60 flight hours over 5 years
Five circuits per year, 12-hour budget per circuit. Take more by topping up at member rates. Take less and roll up to 25% to the next year.
Founder price locked for 5 years
No annual escalation. The price you sign at is the price you fly at, every year, until renewal.
Hangar your aircraft, or use ours
Indoor hangaring at Wonderboom (Pretoria) or Lake Longmere if you choose to base your own machine. When yours is in service, step into the club fleet — ELA-10, AutoGyro Cavalon, Magni M24.
Pilot validation handled
SACAA pilot validation processed for you. Local conversion training included on first arrival.
Multi-country customs + handling
Botswana, Mozambique, Eswatini, South Africa included on every circuit. Zimbabwe and Zambia available on request. One paperwork engine, one EUR invoice.
Heron Africa lodge nights
15 lodge nights bundled across the 5 years — selectable from the partner list. Top-ups at member rates.
Founders dinner, every year
Annual gathering of the 50. Named seat on the roster. Co-branded film cut of your circuit, edited by the MySky media team.
Insurance + AOC umbrella
Your aircraft flies under FlyJetStream's SACAA AOC when piloted by our instructors. Your insurance survives. Hull cover available as an add-on.
Section 2 — Pricing & terms
Three ways in. One of them is the only one that locks your price for 5 years.
Indicative pricing in EUR. Personal Founder agreement issued on request and finalised after a 30-minute call.
| Tier | One-off | Annual | What it gets you |
|---|---|---|---|
Founder · 5-Year Capped at 50 globally | €48,000 | €18,000 | Full Founder package below. Price locked for 5 years. Roll-over of 25% of unused hours. |
Annual · Rolling Open | — | €28,000 | Same access, no lock, year-on-year escalation. Convertible to Founder while seats remain. |
Trial · Single circuit No commitment | from €6,500 | — | One curated circuit. Fully credited against a Founder or Annual seat if you join within 60 days. |
· 30-day cooling off after your first circuit.
· Hours roll over: up to 25% to year 2.
· EUR invoiced. Cross-border admin priced in.
Section 3 — How your membership contributes
This club pays its way over the parks it flies.
Membership is not a green sticker. It is a budget line. Every flight hour you book through MySky carries a per-hour conservation levy, ring-fenced and paid to WeLoveParks.org — our partner-of-record for anti-poaching and ranger units in the parks underneath the routes you fly.
You can fly the conservation work directly: optional doors-off rhino-monitoring legs with the Mashatu vet team, elephant collar tracking sweeps, anti-poaching air support hours. Real conservation participation, not a photo-op.
Lodge bookings flow through Heron Africa partners that fund local guide-training programmes — money that would otherwise leave the country lands in the village that hosts the strip.
Every Founder receives a named attribution — a tree, a ranger patrol vehicle, a notch on a rhino — and an annual transparency report: hours flown by the club, levy raised, units funded, projects supported. Numbers, not pictures.
€95
conservation levy / flight hour
15
lodge nights bundled / 5 years
100%
of levy paid through to WeLoveParks
Section 4 — The roster
A roster, not a customer list.
Founder seats are limited to 50 because the experience is limited to 50. Owners who fly together, sit at the same Boma dinner, have their name on the same Founders' wall. You are not buying flight hours. You are joining a roster.
Section 5 — Reserve your seat
50 seats. One continent.
Reserve a Founder seat or request the personal Founder agreement. We respond inside 48 hours, anywhere on earth.
Founder pricing held for 30 days from agreement issue.
Industry estimates used in this letter — installed gyroplane base of ~5,000–7,000 airframes worldwide; owner-flown hours of 30–60 per year — sourced from AutoGyro public delivery announcements, EASA & national aircraft registers, and FAA / GAMA general aviation activity surveys. Conservative ranges throughout.