Originally Posted by
Flingwing47
Nalca
6700 amsl
350m long
10m wide
1st 100m 10% slope
2nd 100m 18%
3rd 100m 15%
last 50m 24% - 3 point turn at the top
Nalca is now 540 meters with an average 11% slope at 4750', and 29 meters wide.
Do you remember any of the other strips you went to?
The shortest in Papua were Tanggeam and Hukimo. Tanggeam was 210 meters, average 9% slope, at 4300'. Hukimo was 210 meters at 5900' and 17% average although the top is into the 20s. Big difference in their effective lengths. Both were new strips when we started going to them a few years back.
Bilai was an older strip, 280 meters, 3% slope, at 5400'. Even though you can go around until you touch down, it would have been an interesting one in a 185. About twenty strips 300 meters and less.
There were about a dozen strips with 20-22% average slopes and another two dozen average 16 to 19%, several with maximum slopes above 20%.