Mtwara airport, Tanzania. Starting the second engine of an AW139 for a SAR sortie.....that's yours truly on the right.
I've been busy this tour! Bringing a new hire up to speed with line indoctrination training, plus taking base guys out for recurrency training flights for SAR hoisting and night helideck landings offshore, and a few annual line checks completed as well, not to mention the rig being far offshore so the legs are quite long, and throw in a few ad hoc flights to Dar es Salaam, two hundred and fifty miles North of our base.....it's turning out to be a good tour for the old log book!
The rains have abated, having just given us a tease, fooling everyone into thinking they've come early this year, but the moisture is most welcomed by the locals. Water is a precise commodity here, one we Westerners take for granted. I can feel the heat and humidity growing uncomfortable, as we head towards summer in the Southern Hemisphere, hard mountain biking in the hills is being replaced by attempting to cool off in the mild waters of the Indian Ocean. Heading to the beach for a snorkel now!
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