Did I say it rains here?

Today at the hangar I continued to study. Hopefully tommorow we may know something about my exam appointments in Quito. Keep praying with us about those.

We were grounded all day today because of rain and low cloud ceilings. We do fly in the rain, but we don't when we really don't have to. The short little strips that we land on tend to be the consistency of snot when it rains, so we try to be careful about pushing it when it comes to rain and wetness.

Two of our pilots are beginning their ferry flight to the USA tommorow. They are taking one of our planes to Kansas and trading it for one of our planes out of the now closed Venezuela program. It should prove to be an interesting trip I am sure. It is a dream of mine to ferry a plane any program I may serve in with MAF. What an unforgetable flight that would be.

This is one of the latest photos of the Quest Kodiak, the airplane that we hope will help MAF worldwide. We are slated to recive our first one as an organization in about a year. Testing is coming along fine. Here the airplane is pictured with the belly pod on. I heard that the floats were being constructed as well to begin that testing. Click on our link in the sidebar if you want more specifics on what the Kodiak can do (The future of MAF?). Like I said before, it will be a long time until I see one and fly one. They are slated to begin flying in our Papua, Indonesia program where we already have a semi-turbine fleet with our Cessna Caravans.

Here is the cockpit of the new Kodiak. Those three flat panel displays are basically all the avionics that this airplane has. In a nutshell, the technology that airliners have had for a while is finally trickling down to the smaller airplanes. It is really revolutionizing the way things are done in modern aircraft, large or small.