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Around The Hangar

We had three or four pilots out flying today. It was rainy at 8 AM, but cleared up quite quickly, and weather wasn't a problem the rest of the day. Curtis, Mateo, and Oscar spent the day working on HC-BQV. Looks like it might fly again by the end of the week. By 5 PM this afternoon Curtis fired up the engine for about five minutes.

I had a lot of water on my work bench, with a keyboard and a mouse getting soaked. I thought, rats, there must be a new leak in the roof. If I haven't mentioned it in here before, the hangar roof as many leaks, 'caused by roofing material that was poorly designed. When I finally got up in the attic this morning, I found that the bucket was in the right place, but it was full and overflowing! I need to remember to check those more often.

Steve had an interesting flight on New Year's day. He went to pick up a pregnant woman who had been in labor five days. He got her all strapped in, then decided to take a minute to answer the call of mother nature. A couple minutes later he was back at the plane, and one of the village elders wanted to pray with him. By the time the prayer was over, he heard a commotion, and the people were helping the lady out of the plane. As she was getting out, her water broke, and almost before her feet hit the ground the baby was on its way out! A few minutes later, the baby was born, and all was well. Steve left for Shell without her, and very thankful the baby wasn't born in flight. He only had one other person with him that afternoon, and that was another medical emergency patient who wouldn't have been able to offer much help at all.