Survival Mode

September 6, 2010

It doesn’t take long to notice that we’ve been silent for about three months. We apologize. This would have been a very fun and interesting time to be sharing all the exciting things going on in our ministry, but after Dylan came home from the hospital we entered “survival mode.” On top of our normal, […]

Landcruising

September 4, 2010

After our incident and subsequent bent propeller, we had a major sprint to try and do with our truck what we normally do with the airplane. The missionaries we fly for depend on the airplane for all their groceries, ministry supplies, transportation, and emergency needs. When it was clear that the airplane would be grounded […]

A Little Incident

September 3, 2010

We have been working at full throttle the last few months in the flight program on Mindanao. We have been really excited to see first hand the work the Lord is doing among tribal people here in all our locations and how their love for the Lord compels them to reach out to neighboring tribes. […]

First Flight as a Missionary Pilot

April 27, 2010

When I was a three year old (or thereabouts) I still remember sitting in an airplane at the SIL mission center in Mindanao and hearing its big engines roar and the Aero Commander start to roll down the grass airstrip. I couldn’t contain my excitement and yelled out, “Weee!” My parents still laugh about that […]

Dealing with Weather

April 24, 2010

Yesterday I soloed on the last airstrip that we are currently using. It feels so good to be at this point, but I am realizing quickly that I find landing and taking off to be the easiest part. In fact, I feel a sense of relief when I circle to land at any of these […]

Licensed to Fly

April 15, 2010

Brian received his license in the mail this week and was able to resume his checkout. The flight we did this week was to a tribal location where the missionaries are not currently living because they are all on furlough. We flew in to check on the condition of their hydro-electric power system and to […]

Organ Transplant in an iMac

April 9, 2010

A few years ago we switched to using Macs for all our computing needs and have never looked back. They have been really reliable and serve our computing needs perfectly. I had a pretty serious scare with our desktop computer a few months ago when we came home from a month-long trip to Luzon to […]

Waffle Iron Fixes a Generator

April 7, 2010

So here I am, typing in the dark using a battery backup for the computer, but tonight we are not sweating like crazy and wishing we were dead. We are basking in the coolness of a nice powerful fan…with the aweful drone of a generator running full throttle in the background. That’s right, a generator! […]

Passed!

March 30, 2010

Brian passed his check-ride!!! Yesterday (Monday) Brian flew to the nearest city to have his check-ride with the Filipino check-ride pilot. This was his last step in getting his Filipino pilot’s license. As you can imagine, Brian was a bit nervous about this as there were so many unknowns – the pilot was one with […]

Brian Can Fly Again

February 28, 2010

A couple weeks ago I went to Luzon to get our Cessna 180 ready to sell. I flew with our chief pilot, Garry, to Manila and we took a taxi from the airport terminal straight to the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) headquarters with high hopes of getting a pile of paperwork processed […]