Jane has been sick the last two days. When you just have one child, and she gets sick, it pretty much throws the whole house out of balance. Our cat, Henry, hasn’t been too sure what to do. So he just sat in a bag.
Nov 4, 2019
Today I had two flights. A normal ‘flight’ is from Maseru, to the mountains where we visit multiple airstrips, and then back to Maseru. The first flight was to take the doctor team to an airstrip very close to Katse dam. I dropped them off, and continued to another village about 10 minutes away to take a patient back home after her check up in Maseru. Then I went on and picked up some pastors who had been staying in the mountains for a few weeks.
My second flight was to go and collect the doctor team and bring them back to Maseru. That flight was pretty challenging, with wind and turbulence. I was almost not able to land and collect them, but luckly it was just possible! We had a very bumpy fight (yes, I spelt that correctly) back home.
Heres a pic I took of one of the passers by at an airstrip called Manamaneng.
Nov 2, 2019
Jane and I got to get in a father daughter date at Wimpy while on the way to get groceries.
Nov 1, 2019
This morning I was the primary pilot on duty. That means I was the one who would do the scheduled flights. I arrived to the hanger at 6am, got everything ready, and took off around 7am.
Unloading at my first stop this morning.
Today was a pretty simple flight. 3 passengers, 3 stops. 2 of my passengers were nurses, returning to their posts in the mountains for their shift, which typically lasts a few weeks. The third passenger also works at a clinic, as an administrator.
At my second stop I had to reconfigure the inside of the plane to be able to fit 2x 49kg gas bottles in. This is a long loading process. Once the seats are removed and strapped in the back, it takes long to get the bottles nicely tied down.
The rest of the flight went great, with the winds staying mostly calm during the hours I was out.
I was back to base by 11am.
The rest of the day I did safety related work in around the hanger. And was on call until lunch time.