Another sunny day or two in Africa and it's the rainy season

Bryan Pill Sat

Well Saturday I spent the day at the Airserve hanger by the old domestic terminal made somewhat infamous by the events recorded in the film Raid on Entebbe and Last King of Scotland. Whilst nicely painted evidence of some wild shooting all those years ago is still there - I mean shooting lumps of metal rather than celluloid.

Twas a long day at Entebbe at the Airserve hanger doing a compulsory slightly unexpected medi-vac course, the course was on how to handle pax for medi-vacs and who we can fly and who we cannot fly, as often the requests are made by medics with little aviation experience and flying at 10,000ft with someone who had a stroke that morning or a strangulated herni, is likely passing their death sentence. Got 'home at 6 - well worth the time spent. Just rather a shame I had planned this as my sermon prep day, so no chance of 12th night - spot of local Shakespearean culture has gone out the window tonight sadly! Have to say am zonked.....

Bryan Pill Sunday

Good church, fun lunch at Gerry & Moira's and enjoyable game of squash and great prayer meeting at Willisons. Bunia in the morning.

Bryan Pill monday

Glorious day crossing Lake Albert in 5X-BIL our oldest Cessna Caravan - some 21years of age. Looking down on the lake shore it looks quite idyllic, hard to believe there is a huge quantity of oil snuggled under the rocks done there. Three new airstrips have grown up over the last few years driven by the thought of 'black gold'. Sliding over the ridge into Bunia it is always nice to see the airfield but today one could see it from 20 miles a treat as most of the year this part of the Congo seems obscured in haze, smoke or it's raining but today you could see for miles.

Bryan Pill Tuesday April 12th

Pilots have one of the few jobs that duty time restrictions say 'work this long & no longer - unless you wish a paper trail or worse,' so limited by number of hours or days on duty. So timely non-flying day as feel a bit off colour, could do with a good sleep, sermon for sunday, essay needs to be in for monday, need to do some stuff for MAF-UK. NB this is not for sympathy just part of my FB 420 character blogg! Of which today this is an unexpanded copy!