Category Archives: Ministry Focus

Information Management for Aviators

With iPad in hand, pilot Joey Martin goes over documents in his electronic flight bag.

Running aviation operations in an organization like MAF requires a lot of information to be accessed, computed, and logged. A lot! There are passenger manifests, maintenance records, aviation operations manuals, airport strip charts, aircraft manuals, procedure checklists, weight and […]

Top 10 ‘Fave’ Photos from 2012

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Update on Celime

One story this year that generated a great deal of interest was that involving a 12-year-old Haitian boy, Dieuphete Celime.

In the fall of 2011, he suffered severe burns from a gas fire during a cooking accident but was left to let his wounds heal on their own in a poorly equipped hospital. Three months after […]

Cleared for Landing: Determining if an Airstrip is Safe

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is an excerpt from a post on the blog of MAF pilot Jon Cadd, who is serving in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In this post, he shares about MAF’s process for vetting a potential airstrip.

The airstrip was still in the process of being rebuilt by the UN and as I […]