Busy! That's the one word description of my past month. Most of my business has come from training a new pilot to help me out here at our small MAF base. The Rogers family moved to PalangkaRaya from another MAF base in Borneo called Tarakan. They came for the purpose of filling in until the end of the year, but they have since decided to make it a permanent move. Praise God! We are super thankful for their flexible spirits and Christ like attitudes. Training with Isaac was a lot of fun as he was already a capable and experienced pilot. The Rogers served almost 6 years at MAF bases in Papua, Indonesia before coming to Borneo this past February.
After two hard weeks of training, Isaac was ready to be "pushed from the nest" and fly solo in the float plane for the first time. Above, Isaac is milliseconds away from touching down back in the Kahayan River for his second solo landing as he returned to PalangkaRaya.
MAF has a tradition to get their pilots wet after their first solo flight. Usually this involves buckets, squirt guns and/or water bottles. In a float plane environment, we get to take that tradition to the next level! Our Indonesian staff love being part of a covert plan mixed with MAF tradition.
Ogasto, one of our Indonesian workers, had told Isaac that there was something wrong with the right side water rudder. Isaac quickly went to look at it and...
...he was quickly baptized into the elite MAF group of float plane pilots. Congratulations and great job Isaac!!! Welcome to the Club!
1 comment:
hahahahahahaha...pwned!! this is waaaaay too fun to read. i wish he didn't bring his cellphone in his pocket.
anyway, welcome back Sean. earlier this month i called pak agus whether you can fly to west borneo to help me medevac my daughter to pontianak, but pak agus said it's impossible because it's way too far.
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