Immanent Cargo

Each day, the Dash-8 makes a regular stop on LHI.  Almost like clockwork, around 2:45 pm local time, from the north west, the head lights of the Dash 8-200 appear out of the clouds and the wing tips reveal the trouble the pilot must endure to balance and straighten out the final seconds before trying to land.

I stress "trying to land"   -- Not all attempts work out. At the last second you might hear the throttle rev up and see the plane jump back into the sky after just touching a wheel....  then the next attempt is made after circling the island once again. The control of the variable pitch propeller Dash-8 is remarkable.

I was there today, waiting for the plane hoping that the equipment would be on-board.  I had checked Qantas and (with the help of Air-Tags), I was assured that the bags arrived from Los Angeles in Sydney four hours before the Sydney-LDH flight.  Well, what a surprise (or not)... the bags weren't on the plane today.  The winds were easily 30km/hr and as soon as it landed, they kicked up even stronger with a new burst of rain.  A typical late Feburary or March Seattle weather pattern. 

Nothing else I can do.   The helpless feeling is just what it is...

So we wait, again.