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The trip to Basco, Batanes Islands Location of Batanes Islands Read the first mission story on the Batannes Islands: http://www.flyawa.org/article.php?id=251 Learn more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batanes Language and culture: http://iloko.tripod.com/Ivatan.htm  Loading up the airplane for our trip to Basco with PFM missionaries.  The two young ladies are PFM missionaries on the way to Basco Batanes.  The PFM missionaries are relacing the ones that are on their way back.  The one holding the door is Cam the area coordinator for PFM.  Finally on the ramp and getting ready to go up to Basco, Batannes.  Everyone is starting to get excited as we near our take-off time.  Here we are loaded and waiting our clearance from Manila ATC  Bhing is settling in for the nearly 4 hour flight to Basco  Finally airborne and setting up our cruise to the north  These are the mountains over Northern Luzon, we are at 10,000ft  As you can see these mountains appear pretty close but they are not  We had a little bit of cloud cover on way up, fortunately we are IFR  Other places we had some beautiful skies  As you can see the plane was packed pretty good  My Co-Pilot is Namsing, a student at Adventist University of the Philippines  Here's Ed trying to get a picture of himself on this trip  These mountains off to our right are almost 9,000 ft as we fly in a valley  We did pass a few islands on our way up to Batannes  We are finally on our descent into Basco  The island is where Basco is located is really pretty  The water up here is a really nice color  One of the duties of the mission pilot. Somehow it was easier in the States  You can see the mountian in the background that the runway heads toward  The terminal at Basco, not exactly JFK  I think they are excited to be here  This is of course our local transportation for getting fuel Home | Who We Are | What We Do | Ways to Help | Media |
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