Guam Thursday, 05 July 2007 |
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We had mechanical difficulty on our flight to However, during taxi to the ramp, something came off of the taxi way and hit the prop. There was a dint, the size of a quarter at the tip of the prop. I thought, we will be stuck in I called my good friend John Ellenberg to get advice and trouble shoot the problem. We needed to get a prop governor, a new prop and fix the magneto. I made several calls to US to get a new prop and prop governor. Due to the shipping size of the prop, and time zone deference between US and Joaquin, the shop manager from Freedom Air, was really a sharp guy and found the points not opening in the magneto and reset it without using any gages by eyeballing the gap. Our prop was repaired with one of Ken’s mechanic who had 5 wives and 47 children. He also found a lose injector that could be the cause of our rpm change. We used Ray Crenshaw (Guam Flight Services)for our ground handling. He is an American who lives in
Look mom, no
hand at 12000 feet
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Hakodate , Japan Saturday, 07 July 2007 |
We left Tokyo at 10 am and landed at Hakodate airport about 1 pm. Weather was good with a little rain on our departure.
This was a
short flight. We left the airport and checked into
our hotel.
I was finely
able to convince Arshid to eat Sushi. |