A few weeks ago we hosted a group of 9 aviation students (7 from Canada and 2 from America) that are interested in pursuing a career in mission aviation. They had already spent a week at our other MAF location in Eastern Borneo, then it was my turn to show them what real MAF pilots do! ("real MAF pilots" = float plane pilots.)
Being that we have a small boat at our location complete with water skis and a wake board, what's not to like. Above one of our local staff, Abet Nego, is shredding the river showing these college kids how it's done...all while still wearing his jeans! Yee Haw!
We played on the river in front of our dock for a while; basically until the boat was almost out of gas and the sun was setting. I think most of the students at that point wanted to be missionary
FLOAT PLANE pilots and they hadn't even flown with me yet! They all
jumped off of the hangar roof into the river numerous times also. What most impressed our local staff was that of this group of 9 students, 2 were girls, and they too jumped off of the hangar roof. It makes for some good ribbing now with our local staff, all of whom are guys, who are too scared to jump off.
So, a few days later I flew three flights with all of them taking them to an interior village where they stayed the night. Instead of coming home on the airplane, they chose to come back to PalangkaRaya via roads and rivers. Needless to say, after cheating death countless times on the interior roads, they all knew without a doubt the power and convenience of flying to the many destinations we can serve with a float plane.
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