Yesterday's shuttle to Loki was a little more complicated than I expected, but it all worked out in the end. It was originally planned that we would swap aircraft in Loki and I would bring the Kenya aircraft back to Juba, via Kapoeta to drop one passenger and collect another.
Plans changed at the last minute and I was asked to bring the Juba aircraft back instead, which meant transferring the 700kg of freight for Juba from the one aircraft to the other. Moving boxes around in 35 deg C is a bit of hard work and I was very grateful to have the help of Fred, our assistant in Loki.
The last minute change also had fuel implications as I was half way through re-fueling when the plans changed. With one wing tank significantly fuller than the other we needed to pull the aircraft forward about 5 metres onto a slight side-slope in order to allow the fuel to balance itself...
Thunderstorms and low cloud made our arrival back in Juba a little bit interesting too, although the worst of the weather had passed while I was away. After 7 or 8 minutes of orbiting to allow other traffic to land we were back on the ground in a very wet Juba.
