A few weeks back, I had the privilege of bringing MAF pilot
Dave Forney along with me for a full day of flying. He was visiting us in PalangkaRaya for a few days, since he serves at our other base in Borneo called Tarakan. He is a talented photographer in his own right and it was fun to see my world through his lens. Above, I am trying to make sense of all the different flight requests and put it together in a logical manner. Sometimes it takes a while.
Unloading cargo...thankfully, as a floatplane pilot, we don't deal with a lot of cargo simply due the the nature of our landing environment. But, when there is cargo, it usually fits into the float lockers just fine.
Nothing like taking a few minutes on one of the cool rivers to refresh myself with some water on the face after sweating profusely as I fly around Central Borneo. Have I mentioned it is hot here?!
One of the things that makes me sweat a lot is the refueling we do while interior. We have fuel "stashed" at about 4 villages that we regularly use. In the course of a full day, I might put 10-12 jerry cans of fuel on board like in the photo above. That's about a full drum...one jerry can at a time. Thankfully we have really good dock help at the locations where we store fuel.
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