A busy Saturday in Lesotho
Pilot's Log
April 1, 2024
Story and photos by MAF pilot Joe Adams in Lesotho My phone buzzes at 5:27 a.m. on a Saturday morning. As the on-call pilot, I
Story and photos by MAF pilot Joe Adams in Lesotho My phone buzzes at 5:27 a.m. on a Saturday morning. As the on-call pilot, I
Medical evacuation flights really hurt during my first term. Once turned loose with an airplane in the jungle, I felt I had to be both
In December, a bus crashed while negotiating Lesotho’s treacherous mountain roads. 7P-CMH and two other MAF Cessna 206s answered the call to come to the
The call came at a bad time. We’d loaded the airplane and buckled in three passengers. I was just climbing into the cockpit. Pancho hurried
The patient doesn’t make a sound as a nurse and I position her on the floor of a Cessna 206. I am amazed at her
I loved flying Ecuadorian jungle kids. They reveled in life, not yet acquiring their elders’ stoicism. At the village airstrips, girls moved in tight, giggling
Circling the remote mountain airstrip I see both windsocks standing straight out, indicating lots of wind. My onboard GPS is talking to me and I
In Kalimantan, Indonesia, MAF pilot Paul College had an unplanned stop in Binawang, on a day when he was running late. Daylight was fading as
We hadn’t flown in almost a week. The entire country of Lesotho was hit with a powerful snow storm that left most of our airstrips
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