From the logbook...feast or famine

After some quick pilot changes this morning, my flying plate suddenly got really full. I hauled a little bit of everything, and made it back to Shell at 5pm, just as a thunderstorm shut the airport down.

My first leg was to take two doctors to a military base in Montalvo. Then I went to Conambo and picked up 5 kids for a church camp sponsored by Ecuador for Christ in Bufeo. After dropping off my kids in Bufeo, I headed back to Shell to get round 2. I left Shell full of cargo and a water engineer for HCJB World Radio. We went to Makuma and dropped off 650 pounds of cargo, picked up two adults and 2 kids and then fought weather to make our way south to Acheuntza to drop off the Makuma passengers, who happen to be Shuar Bible translators. From Achuentza we flew to Cusuimi where I waited for the water engineer to gather some info for a future project. It just so happens that another pilot and other MAF staff were also in Cusuimi doing an FM radio install. They had forgotten some key parts and I brought those as well. Two hours later the water engineer and I took off for Makuma again to pick up 4 more people, all missionaries for a conference they have in Quito. From Makuma we then made my last landing , number 10, and called it a day.

Our radio install crew blasting off in Cusuimi on the way to install number two. They will be in the jungle until Thursday trying to complete 6-7 village installs before they return to Shell.