Day three, Flying to Texas!

Waiting in Augusta, KS!

Due to a snag, were not able to depart from Augusta, KS this morning. I had to wake up the guys that were still fast asleep at 5:30. After a devotional and briefing for the Pilots In Command, Angela and her grandpa drove us to the small, but nice airport in Augusta.
While waiting, we were lucky and asked the pilot of a Citation CJ2 if we could check out the inside of his jet. Really nice, the aircraft only had 80 hours of flight time!
Finally, at 9:35, after saying goodbye to our new good friend we took off for Grand Prairie, TX.


Dallas's crazy airspace!

Flying through Oklahoma, was pretty much uneventful. Controllers seamed to have a hard time repeating our aircraft's call signs. This is Canadian Warrior: Foxtrot Echo India November, what? Canadian Golf Echo Lima November?


Arriving in the Dallas airspace was a CHALLENGE! We had to be fast, and react quickly and efficiently to where the controller was guiding us. It was a bit like the juggling act that Kyle gave us at the Wycliffe Center later! Walter provided an extra set of eyes for us... he sat and watched carefully, alerting us whenever he saw traffic! A number of Jets and small single engine aircrafts were close enough that it might have caused conflict.

Finally, arriving close to the Grand Prairie airport, south of Dallas, the airspace's controller handed us over to the Grand Prairie tower, who thought one of our aircraft was a helicopter, and he was going to clear them to land on the helipad!!! At the last minute, we were cleared to land on the runway, but unfortunately we were then too high, and had to overshoot the runway and land after a circuit (pattern in the US air vocabulary). We had finally arrived! and it was 22 degrees Celsius! Welcome to Texas!

Wycliffe Center Visit

After a quick lunch and welcome by the MacLean family, we had a guided tour of the Wycliffe Center (SIL Center) were both Mr. and Mrs. MacLean work. We had fun learning about this organization and what they are doing throughout the world. The rest of the day was spent relaxing, doing an acorn war, eating good food, Kelly doing card tricks, guys watching Holgin's Heroes, shooting air-guns in the garage... It's good to be here, and thank ya'll for your prayers.

I will praise You, O Lord, among the peoples;
I will sing to You among the nations.
For Your mercy reaches unto the heavens,
And Your truth unto the clouds.
Be exalted, O God, above the heavens;
Let Your glory be above all the earth.
Psalm 59:9-11