From the Logbook...The Other Hat

A few weeks ago, I was really busy fixing airplanes instead of flying them.  Occasionally, we encounter bigger problems than we were hoping for while an airplane is undergoing a normal inspection.  The pictures above and below show me working some new exhaust valves into some cylinders due to low compression.  Our airplane was almost grounded for a month because we had to wait for our parts to come from America.  Thankfully now, both of our airplanes are fixed and I've been flying more than fixing.

Field Trip

A few weeks back we were visited by a local school for about 3 hours.  It was a fun time having all those kids at our location, and they all (mostly) enjoyed sitting in the cockpit.  I felt like one of the elves in "A Christmas Story" putting kids on Santa's lap.  Some kids loved it, others immediately started screaming and crying when they were in the pilots seat.

Somehow, shortly before we finished, all the teachers grouped all the kids together and we got a group picture.  All together, there was over 100 people at our dock; teachers, parents, and students combined.

Hangar Roof Jumping

After a long day in the office working on various projects, sometimes you just gotta do something a little different.  So, why not jump off of the roof of the hangar into the river below?!

I had so much fun and adrenaline from the first jump...I did it twice.  I'm pretty sure we are going to have to do it some more.

I wasn't breaking any Olympic records for my "small" splash, but it did help wake me up for the remainder of my day.  There are some cool perks to working next to a river!

From the Logbook...Supang2

Not many days after visiting the above village of Supang, I was called back to transport another woman having a difficult child labor.  Only this time, the patient was in much worse state.

Thankfully, after an uneventful 45 minute flight, we were able to get her to PalangkaRaya and then some of our national staff took her and her husband to the hospital.

Backyard Sunset

Due to the rapid nature in which the sun rises and sets when on the equator, spectacular sunsets rarely occur.  However, a recent sunset did stand out as being "better than normal" so I took a picture and converted it to a heat signature picture.  I thought the results, although unnatural to the human eye, were amazing to see all of the different light spectrums that were revealed that we cannot naturally see.  

From the Logbook...

Recently I have been working on a 50 hour maintenance inspection on one of our airplanes while our other pilot has been keeping up with the flying.  One day recently he returned with this older woman and her family.  Apparently she had been sick for almost 2 weeks, and only just now "cried uncle" and called to have the airplane pick her up and bring her to the hospital.