Author Archives: Eivind Lindtjorn

Jeg er akkurat tilbake fra tre dager med klinikk- og evangelist-flygninger ut fra Kilimatinde Hospital midt i Tanzania. Herfra flyr vi helsearbeidere og evangelister til tre landsbyer som ikke har noe helsetjenester eller etablerte kirker. Disse mobile klinikkene betjener et mye større område enn selve landsbyen vi lander ved ettersom gravide kvinner og mødre medContinue reading “Legem og sjel”

Nå har jeg vært i Tanzania i fem dager og alt har gått bemerkelsesverdig smertefritt. Jeg ankom Kilimanjaro Mandag kveld, Tirsdag hadde jeg legesjekk og fornyelse av legeattesten. Onsdag fløy jeg sammen med Kirstein, som er den eneste piloten her nå, ned til en plass som heter Katahe for å fly et team med sykepleiereContinue reading “Tilbake i Tanzania”

I Juni 2019 kom vi til Norge etter å ha tilbragt tilsammen 11 år i øst-Afrika etter jeg første gang begynte som MAF pilot i Tanzania i 2006. Den siste perioden var preget av mye flytting, usikkerhet og en del hendelser som gjorde at vi i 2019 bestemte oss for å flytte til USA, et avContinue reading “En gang misjonspilot – alltid misjonspilot…”

The last leg over to Australia was the shortest of all our sectors crossing the Pacific. As I mentioned earlier our plan was to fly from Majuro and all the way to Cairns, but this didn’t work out because of our technical delay and the weather forcing us to divert. In the end we wereContinue reading “Day 9. Solomon Islands – Australia”

We got up at 4:20am as usual to make it to the airport by 5:00am for a 6:00am departure. Getting up early enough has been quite easy as we have moved two time zones westward after every flight. Weather was fine in Majuro but the cyclones north and south of Solomon Islands caused some strongContinue reading “Day 8. Marshall Islands – Solomon Islands”

I must have been quite tired from yesterday’s flight from Hawaii, cause I slept like a rock until 6:30. Woke up to the sound of the Pacific waves outside my window. Just beautiful. After breakfast we headed over to the airport to try to fix my HF. Our mechanics in Mareeba suggested we take aContinue reading “Day 7. Resting and repairing the HF”

There have been some weather systems in south-western Pacific that we have monitored the last few days. One cyclone east of Australia might give us a little too strong headwinds for our last leg to Cairns. A SIGMET (Significant Weather) report of embedded thunderstorms existed for Marshall islands, and Majuro was right on the edgeContinue reading “Day 6. Hawaii – Marshall Islands”

Not much to report from this day. We had a late breakfast at the hotel. The locals were wearing sweaters and complained about how cold it was. It got better as the sun got higher on the sky, but I always imagined Hawaii to be quite warm. I assume the other hotel guests imagined thatContinue reading “Day 5. Resting in Hawaii”

We got up at 4:20am local time, checked the weather right away and were happy to see that winds and weather forecasts were the same as the evening before. Our hotel was right next to the aircraft parking so we literally just walked out the door and over to our planes. As we did ourContinue reading “Day 4. California – Hawaii”

Yesterday we decided to delay our departure for Hawaii due to strong winds outside the west coast of the US. Today we have been monitoring the winds and the weather forecasts and the winds should improve enough by tomorrow morning, allowing us to depart at about 6am local time. As of now the winds andContinue reading “Day 3. Waiting for calmer winds.”