{"id":2392,"date":"2018-04-30T19:36:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T02:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/?p=2392"},"modified":"2018-04-30T19:36:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T02:36:11","slug":"r66-checkout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/2018\/04\/30\/r66-checkout\/","title":{"rendered":"R66 Checkout"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brian flew the Ethnos360 Aviation R66 at our US training center in Arizona. Here he is carrying a load of telephone poles in order to get a feel for how the R66 handles heavy and odd loads. This little helicopter can lift more than its own weight which means that from flight to flight the handling characteristics of the helicopter change drastically depending on the load.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After spending 7 weeks in the USA for both flight and maintenance training with the Robinson R66\u00a0helicopter we are back in the Philippines working with our team to get the R66 up and running in our region. It is going\u00a0really well so far and it is already clear that the extra payload and passenger capacity of this helicopter are going to make a big\u00a0difference in the church planting, translation and\u00a0discipleship efforts that we are supporting.<\/p>\n

So much time, sweat and money go into getting a machine like this functioning in a flight program that it is easy to get tunnel vision and only see the next task we have to accomplish in a long chain of technical tasks. This is all important stuff, but it’s not the point of what we’re doing. We’re simply trying to use the best tools available today to do the most important job in the World – telling the World that they have a Savior!<\/p>\n

In the months and years ahead this R66 will be used to support\u00a0both indigenous missionaries and expatriate missionaries in the jungle in a safe and efficient manner. It’s fairly obvious that it will make their work more efficient and safer which are both a big deal. However,\u00a0the main thing is that it makes it possible to work in such rugged and remote areas\u00a0in the first place.\u00a0We are expanding into new outreaches all the time which have been without access to the Gospel for\u00a0all these years. The helicopter is providing access and we’re thrilled to be a link in the chain that brings these dear people one step closer to knowing their Savior.<\/p>\n

Thank you for partnering with our ministry. It is\u00a0a very technical ministry, but it is one of the many necessary moving parts that is allowing access to\u00a0the most challenging places in the Philippines.<\/p>\n

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Our time is the USA wasn’t all work. We also took advantage of being on the West Coast to get a much needed family “decompression time.” Now that we are back in the Philippines with the new helicopter we are right back into the thick of things and are so thankful for the short time of rest.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After spending 7 weeks in the USA for both flight and maintenance training with the Robinson R66\u00a0helicopter we are back in the Philippines working with our team to get the R66 up and running in our region. It is going\u00a0really well so far and it is already clear that the extra payload and passenger capacity […]<\/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],"tags":[448],"class_list":["post-2392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-ministry","tag-ethnos360","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392","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=2392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}