Brian and Katherine Schaadt assisting tribal evangelism through aviation Rainy Season Medivac
Loading Heli in the Tribe
Katherine, the kids and I were on a completely different island attending meetings when we got a call. The message was that one of our missionaries had a ten-year-old daughter who was sick with possibly either malaria or dengue fever. She needed to be flown out of the tribe for immediate medical treatment.
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The helicopter is here… Now what?
The mission helicopter arrived to our northern Luzon mission center over a month ago. Brian and mechanics Zach, Joel, and Brett worked together to unload it from the container and reassemble it. It’s physically ready to fly now! But hold on.. now for the paperwork… It needs legal registration and airworthiness clearance. This is being processed and we’re praying for no big hang ups.
Also, in the meantime, Brian is getting back in the saddle or “at the stick” again. He hasn’t flown for over a year so is in need of some recurrency flying. He flew last week with a Filipino certified instructor in the city of Manila. It went very well and Brian is eager to do more flying. As soon as the heli paperwork comes through he will continue his practice flying in it.
Brian is operating on a temporary pilot license. Aviation here requires that he take an exam and fly ten hours in order to receive the permanent one. So far he has two hours and has completed the exam.
Please be praying that these things will go quickly and smoothly.