Pre-Service Orientation, SOPs, and the 182

After a snow day yesterday, everyone returned to the hangar today driving on an inch or so of ice. The road up the hill to the airport wasn't in great condition, but it was good enough to make it to the top with minimal slippage.

I spent the day administering the first of two days of "pre-service" orientation to Andy Porter. Andy is our newest apprentice in partnership with MAF-UK. You might remember his evaluation visit as mentioned in a previous post from last June. Lord willing we'll finish the administrive portion of his orientation tomorrow and he'll be ready to begin his hangar orientation on Monday.

Here I am with Andy in the MMS conference room this afternoon.

Karen was in helping me today. She continued updating the world wall map of airplanes we've serviced, rapid responses we've made, and graduate prayer cards and pictures; organized and mailed program information packets to interested individuals; updated several SOP manuals, and handled related emails.

Karen updates an SOP manual.

And in the hangar, progress continued on the Moody 182. In the morning, Chuck and Gertjan removed the old windscreen and prepped the airframe for a new windscreen. This afternoon they installed the windscreen in place and began the process of riveting and securing it in place.

Gertjan works outside the fuselage while Chuck
works inside to secure the new windscreen in place.

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