Last week I got checked out on this airstrip. It’s our old home airstrip on the southern part of the island. Good place to start - tall tress on all sides and some bumps on the strip but plenty long.

This week it’s on to my first village airstrip. It has been raining here for the last 4 days as a typhoon has passed to the North of us. That means the strip will be pretty soft and muddy. Please pray for good weather as we are hoping that it dries out quickly. I’d like to work up to landing on soft wet fields, not start on them!

Another exciting happening this week is that I will have my checkride with the Philippine Air Transportation Office. We are flying the examiner out from Manila on Thursday on the earliest morning flight and hope to be done in time for him to catch the last flight of the day (which is about lunch time) back to Manila. That would save us having to get him a hotel room for the night!

This checkride is a big step in my checkout process. Once I pass the checkride, I will be able to start carrying passengers without Garry on board into the strips I’m checked out on. Right now the goal is to get checked out on a strip a week – weather permitting. So keep praying for blue skies!