Since when have you been with MAF and what brought you to MAF? I first joined MAF in May 1998 when I was in Madang. Back then I attended the same church as Olavi Kumpulainen and his family, a Finnish MAF pilot based in Madang. He asked me if I was interested in assisting with […]
9:00pm (the night before) I receive a phone call from a pilot. He fell while he was playing basketball that day. He believes he has injured his elbow and won’t be able to fly the next day. Normally this causes problems, but this time it was a bigger issue for I was fairly certain he […]
Our Goroka Twin Otter crew, Brad Venter and Jason Marsh, arrived for work that particular Monday morning expecting a normal Goroka Twin Otter program. Their first run was a drop off for some passengers and cargo in Guwasa, from where they would then fly to A*, a nearby airstrip where a group of missionaries are […]
Lined up for a Test Landing It’s mid June now. A Twin Otter crew recently did a test landing at each of the two airstrips. With neither Remi nor the Flight Operations Manager being in country, another experienced pilot had to take on this task. With permission from the Flight Operations Manager (FOM), Twin Otter Captain […]