AHHhhhhh Taildragger, it does sound so very familiar and so very very sad to see that the fruit-bat gets another bite at the PNG cherry at possibly great cost to the country. I wonder who really orchestrated all that. We will have to rely on the number crunching from the bean counters to extract a bit of save from that lot.
Some recall that the last pixie effort into a fruit-bat foray cost them a squillion dollars over 10 months, is the same person responsible for calling the shots this time? No wonder another air operator is quickly obtaining a gaggle or two of additional Dash 8's; No doubt to pick up the slack when the fruit bat falls over as often as it did last time in peengee.
If I recall correctly, the 146-100 can not make it above the dme departure steps en-route Lae/Nadzab or Girua tracks, circling like the F27 days of yore!
C180's the only way to go!