Olerai. We've been doing a bunch of flights there the last few weeks taking doctors and nurses to Tenwick hospital in Bomet. The Bomet runway is down for repairs, and Olerai farm is the closest runway.
Olerai...sounds like there should be a song...Old MacDonald, Olerai...
After getting back from Olerai I got to go to the Coptic Hospital, run by the Coptic Orthodox church to look at some equipment they want taken to Musoma in Tanzania. They're starting a new clinic there. Saturday Matt O. is taking 4 doctors over to Musoma. Wednesday I go and pick them up, and since I'm going there anyway, they wanted me to take an examination chair and an anesthesia machine.
The chair is HUGE! It must weigh 150 to 200 kg and it's going to fill the airplane. I just hope the weight works out so that I'm not out of balance. They want the anesthesia machine to go too. It's lighter, maybe 60-100 kg but fairly bulky. IF (a big if) it can be disassembled far enough both items might fit. Maybe. I bet I end up taking only the chair. I'm not looking forward to loading it.
I also spoke with one of the passengers going to Musoma. A lady from New York, and she's terrified of flying, especially in a little airplane. I tried to assure her she's getting the best, Matt O. was a USAF instructor pilot, Cessna's service rep told us that he'd never seen aircraft in the field maintained as well as ours, and other words of reassurance. She was not reassured. Oh well. Good luck, Matt.
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