If you have received our latest newsletter then you would have read about the incident with our Cessna 210 where the propeller was damaged. Well, Kees (Chief Engineer) and I went to the Island where the plane was stranded in order to carry out some checks and install a new propeller in order to fly it back to our hangar.

Once the plane was inspected and the new propeller was installed the plane had a safe flight back to Kajjansi. Now we will have to remove the engine and ship it to the States for it to be thoroughly inspected by the manufacturer. We estimate that the plane will not be flying again until at least January ‘09.

At the end of September we carried out a medevac from Matany in Northern Uganda for International Hospital Kampala.
Moses had been involved in a motorbike accident in which he sustained head injuries and needed urgent medical attention.
Pilot, Dave Rogers helped load him onto the plane so he could be brought back to Kampala and quickly receive the treatment he desperately needed that was not available in the small hospital at Matany. He also received a quantity of blood that we had transported up to Matany hospital earlier in the week. Moses was unconscious and in Intensive Care for a couple of weeks but last week was released from hospital and is making a good recovery.

The year is flying by and Christmas is fast approaching. Normally I bake my Christmas cake in September so with October  almost over I decided I needed to get baking…

For those not from the UK, the traditional Christmas cake is a very rich fruit cake which tastes best if baked a couple of months before you want to eat it .  That takes a bit of planning in the Uk.  Here in Uganda I also have to ask visitors to bring some of the ingredients out for me so I need to get planning even earlier !

Joshua struggled with the whole concept of baking a cake but not eating it, so we all baked some buns/cup cakes too. You can never have too much cake…