It has been busy here in the last few weeks.  Just to give an idea of the amount of flying we have been doing…

In the whole of April our aircraft flew a total of 260 hours.

In the two weeks at the end of April our aircraft flew to 136 locations around Uganda, Sudan and DRC.  282 passengers were carried together with 4076 Kg of luggage and 4293 Kg of freight.

As a comparison, during the same two weeks in 2008 we made flights to 109 locations, 208 passengers were carried together with 3113Kg luggage and 2390 Kg of freight.

All of this flying has meant that we need more planes.  We have been waiting for many months for the arrival of ‘Scotty’.

The plane arrived from MAF South Africa a couple of weeks ago and the engineering team have been busy inspecting it and getting a mountain of paperwork ready in order to get the plane registered here in Uganda.

Pray the the process would go smoothly so that ‘Scotty’ can be flying across Uganda, Sudan and Congo soon.

Scotty's pod is removed in order to carry out inspections

With furlough fast approaching we are all trying to tick as many items as possible off our ‘to do’ lists before we head to UK.

Last week Sarah headed out to the hangar for the day.  I was helping Mark by organising a couple of the drawers in his tool box.  My task… to cut out shapes in a foam insert that the tools fit into.  This way, Mark can look in his drawer and immediately tell if a tool is missing and ensure that none get left in a plane when maintenance is being done.

organised tool box drawer

At the weekend the girls got down to some more DIY.  We painted the frame that Mark made for the dolls house to stand on.

"Paint the wood too Amy"

Mark has also been busy working on the roof rack for the car, trying to get the neighbours internet set up and studying for his exam.  There has been a lot of maintenance to do in the hangar recently but he would really like to take his exam before furlough - please pray that schedules would allow this to happen.

There is one other big item still on our ‘to do’ list that we really must get working on… putting a presentation together for Home Assignment!