Hi
Yesterday I was flying with David Gates along the border with Venezuela 200 miles from home, when the oil temperature on the plane nearly red lined and the engine started running very rough. We said extra prayers and started looking for some place to land in the dense jungle. We we able to get the oil temp to start cooling after a few adjustments. When it got to normal range after many long intense minutes, the engine started runing smoother. We headed back to our original destination and landed safely, still 150 miles from home. We took the engine cover off and inspected all we could. We added more oil (it was not low) and then I left for home solo as David had his own plane to fly back and it was getting late in the day. The plane flew fine the rest of the way home and the weather was good on the flight path home, but stormy on both sides. My prayer was for the engine to function well, weather to be good as I was already very stressed, and that I could get home before the sunset as that is the law here. All 3 requests were granted by my Heavenly Father!! Today I went and checked the spark plugs and did a compression check. One cylinder out of 4 had a compression of 38 and the others were all 70+. We have a mechanic coming down next week to do some other work, I sent him an email this afternoon, and he said he has a cylinder sitting on the shelf and will bring it this coming week to replace this one. Hope to be in the air again before the week is over so that we can get supplies out that will be running short by then. This is why I ask my angel to fly with me every day. Too many things can happen and I need them to keep me in the air.
I'm so grateful to be home and have the plane here where the repairs can be made and a mechanic was already planing to come next week. God is Faithful!!