Today and Wednesday are flight days. That means early mornings and lots of weather monitoring. Today, there is a nice tropical storm in the area, not hitting us directly. It is dragging weather across our island tho. Ben was in the air at 6 this morning to get some folks out of the tribe. Not even halfway there, he ran into a wall of black clouds. There was no getting through, so he turned around and headed back to our city.
Four hours later, the weather looks a bit more cleared up. He is off again, this time he has made it to the tribal location and is on track to make it back home.
There's another storm headed this way. Perhaps it will make it here in time for his next flight? Wouldn't that be just dandy? For him, that means flying around storms, and monitoring his turn around boundaries. For me, that means I stick close to the radio, monitoring his location, checking weather on the internet, calling our halfway location for weather updates, and radio-ing the tribal location for up to date weather. And the return trip to our city entails me running back and forth from the computer to our porch to check local weather conditions and see if the mountains are clear (we have a GREAT view!).
After those two flights, Ben begins a 100 hour inspection on the plane. What does that mean? Not exactly sure what that means for him, but for me, it means a lot less running :)
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