Engine Change

This week my energy was focused on changing an engine on one of our airplanes. Every 1700 flight hours MAF installs a new engine on all their piston airplanes. So Chris and I together spent hours removing the old engine and installing a new one. The good news is that we flew it for the first time with the new engine on Thursday afternoon. Praise the Lord, it ran great. It has Gamijectors which makes it an incredibly smooth running machine.

Despite all the time working on the airplane, and despite the fact that I brought my camera everyday. I never got around to taking a picture. So, unfortunately you can't see the fruits of this weeks labor.

On another note. Here are Laura, Julia and I wearing our authentic Dayak hats. These are hats that I typically saw people wear when I flew in the Apau Kayan area of East Kalimantan. There are people here in Southern Kalimantan that wear them too, but here it seems to only be for special occasions. In East Kalimantan people wore them on a regular basis.



This is a house boat in the truest sense of the word. It's an actual floating house that I encountered one day last week. It was just being pulled right down the middle of the river by a couple of little boats.