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Weather in the tropics, where most of the missions are, is fast-changing, potentially violent and often different from one valley to the next.
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Landing strips are sometimes carved out of a mountainside, on an incline, allowing only one direction of approach and no way to pull back or circle once the approach begins. But according to Moody Aviation director Ed Robinson, a veteran of a dozen years flying in Indonesia and the Philippines, the biggest danger to missionary pilots is often their own desire to do more. Robinson tells the story of a pilot he supervised in Irian Jaya, the former Dutch New Guinea, who had put in a full day flying a float plane in and out of the swamps near the island's coastline.
As the man returned to base for supper, he was asked to fly a worker to a nearby airstrip, just a three- or four-minute hop over a mountain ridge. The pilot quickly switched to a wheeled plane, made the flight, and headed back alone. As he returned, fatigue got the better of his concentration.
He lined up for approach on the stretch of river where the float plane customarily landed. The pilot somehow managed to put the wheeled plane down in the water, and scrambled out before the plane sank to the bottom. The plane was fished out and flying two days later. But the lesson was indelible. At Moody Aviation, one is more likely to hear that kind of cautionary tale than any rhapsody about soaring through the clouds.
What does fire up otherwise mild-mannered pilots at Moody Aviation is a suggestion that their work may be obsolete or, worse, wrong. They live in fear and bondage to the spirits. Why don't you leave them alone? Just outside Moody Aviation's radio room, a wall-size map of the world bristles with push pins.
Flying For Christ A Missionary Pilot S Story
In dozens of agencies around the world, hundreds of missionary pilots fly food and medicine in after disasters, transport sick and injured villagers to distant hospitals, or ferry government officials into their own hinterlands. If the subject of salvation comes up en route, all the better. Though Moody officials don't talk much about it, a few of their graduates even work as covert missionaries. Some countries will not issue a visa to a Christian preacher but will allow entry by a working pilot or mechanic.
The pilot then plies his trade in the secular world, keeping an eye out for opportunities to comfort ostracized Christians or spread the faith, usually one person at a time. Aviation, however, was not originally seen as a cover, but as a breakthrough tool for getting out the word of the Lord.
By Anonymous as told to Martha Krienke.
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