Morning in Manaus found SG and I starting off our hopefully early departure by getting dropped off at the end of the airport doesn’t have the weather, landing fee and flight planning offices. It also doesn’t have any taxis sitting at the curb so it took a lot of waiting before one showed up to drop someone off. So much for our early start. After finally getting all the fees paid, weather checked and flight plan filed we climbed into the Bonanza, which was now about three hundred degrees due to it being not early morning any more, and blasted off for another long leg over the Amazon jungle. Just like when you’re flying over the ocean, flying over hundreds of miles of unbroken rainforest can be nerve wracking. Every little noise the engine makes is a potential death sentence, every cloud on the horizon is a monster storm blocking your path. The only way to keep from going crazy and letting the fear take over is to just ignore the danger and keep flying.
