{"id":1606,"date":"2011-08-10T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T16:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2011-08-24T23:43:29","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T03:43:29","slug":"taking-it-up-a-notch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/2011\/08\/10\/taking-it-up-a-notch\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking it up a Notch"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It's been a real challenge to keep up with all the normal flying in addition to teaching Joel how to do it. Thankfully we're getting a little bit of a breather this week as we wait for Joel's check ride.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It feels like I\u2019ve only just begun flying here in the Philippines, but by the time we head to the States for home assignment in November I\u2019ll have flown almost 300 hours, nearly 1,000 landings and 600 flight legs. It doesn\u2019t sound like much, but under these conditions and on these short flights, that is a lot of flying and loading and unloading! We\u2019re now working with Joel and Missy Davis to hand responsibilities off so that they can run things by themselves while we\u2019re gone. It is also important that Joel and I be able to fill in for each other when we are both working together after we return from the States.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This means that I have been flying as a flight instructor once again and working with Joel to get him ready to fly into our jungle airstrips. We have some very challenging weather with thunderstorms, typhoon winds, fog, haze and afternoon rains putting together an unpredictable cauldron of nastiness. Joel has been riding along on my normal flight routes and learning about the weather patterns and various routes and methods of dealing with the ever-changing weather conditions.<\/p>\n

One day he told me he was actually praying that we would get bad weather so that he would have a better \u201clearning experience.\u201d I almost pushed him out the airplane door! God in his sovereignty has granted Joel\u2019s request and we have had some very challenging weather to deal with – it couldn\u2019t be a better environment for Joel to learn the idiosyncrasies of our small region of the South Pacific.<\/p>\n

This week, Joel will take his check ride with an examiner from the Philippines and he will acquire his permanent Philippine pilot\u2019s license. With that in hand we will polish up some of Joel\u2019s techniques and skills and head for the tribal airstrips. It will be the most challenging thing I think I\u2019ve ever done in my life. I am confident in our ability to carry out the flights safely or I wouldn\u2019t be doing it. However, I would appreciate your prayers as we land on some of the most difficult Cessna 185 airstrips in the world. Pray for safety, good weather, good decisions, and if necessary that I\u2019d have good and appropriate reactions as Joel lands on these airstrips for the first time.<\/p>\n

Here’s a Video of Some of the Airstrips We’ll be Flying to:<\/h3>\n

Three Tricky Little Cessna 185 Airstrips<\/a><\/p>\n

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It feels like I\u2019ve only just begun flying here in the Philippines, but by the time we head to the States for home assignment in November I\u2019ll have flown almost 300 hours, nearly 1,000 landings and 600 flight legs. It doesn\u2019t sound like much, but under these conditions and on these short flights, that is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-ministry","category-shop-talk","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}