So as I mentioned in the previous post, I had quite a busy weekend. There was a situation that arose in DRC which required some maintenance expertise to be involved and I was the one chosen for the task. So Friday night, me and a couple of our pilots flew from Nairobi to Entebbe, Uganda, which is where AIM AIR has an "outpost base" or whatever you want to call it. Saturday early morning we departed for our destination, where I utilized my skills the Lord has blessed me with to resolve the situation. The "rescued" plane made it safely back to base and our crew continued on with a couple other scheduled stops in DRC before heading back to Entebbe for the night. Then, a pilot and I stayed until our commercial flight departed back to Nairobi Sunday night. It was great to worship with believers in Entebbe and then be able to see the town a little bit and also fellowship with one of our pilots and his wife. It was a neat trip and has opened my eyes to the "other side" of AIM AIR. Below are some pictures of the trip on Saturday; I will be cutting the pictures in two groups because of the number of pictures...I think we took over 500 photos total on the trip. Enjoy!
This is the view from the Caravan departing Entebbe to the south over Lake Victoria.
This little village was just the right side of the end of the runway. Notice the big church right on the shore in the left side of the picture. It was beautiful.
Beautiful sunrise over the water.
Welcome to the DRC...the terrain was amazing.
Coming into DRC on our first stop to clear customs/immigration.
The first stop airport. There are tons of UN aircraft all over the place. That's also a MAF Caravan parked just to the right of the building pointing towards us.
We caught some pictures of this Basler turbine DC-3. He landed and parked right over next to us. It's a pretty neat looking aircraft, used for geological surveys and such.
Here's our destination airstrip. You can see the airplane sitting at the end of the strip, which was actually more of a road than anything else.
The small village that was located just at the end of the airstrip.
Taxying up after landing.
This was the scene for about 3.5 hours while we were on the ground.
They roped off the area and all the villagers came out to watch. It was neat. Every now and then I would spot a soldier in the bushes with an automatic rifle, watching what was going on.
Talking on the sat phone with the bosses. Don't I look important?! Haha!
The airstrip. Thought this was a pretty neat picture.
Looking down at the two airplanes and the villagers beyond. We were pretty much...in the bush.
A group of the local men praying for the safe flights of the aircraft as we were getting ready to depart. I was so busy with the aircraft, I didn't even see this happening, so it was cool to see the picture afterwards.
...And there she goes, heading down the runway/road.
Off and climbing fine. Success!
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