Kanabea was where PNH a Porter was wrecked.
Lovely gusty bugger of a place
I believe the Porters spinner made the threshold.
Marawaka was a bugger for low cloud and rain.
Tin arriving one ****ty morning from Goroka down the ridge into the valley in the rain drizzle and muck pushing the stick hard down into the trees and arriving at the wrong end of the strip in dot viz and landing the wrong way !!
After me knees had stopped knocking I taxy back and the Kiap said bugger me where did you come from? Come and have a cuppa. Thank god for 185's.
The boi on the bloody HF had sent a weather report to old "Rocky " in Goroka it was 8/8ths blue.
He told me sori tumas he meant 8/8th blue cloud .
I know this is nothing to the "Aces" up there at the time but it sure got me focused .
I never trusted Rocky again...er did anyone ever?
Nother time out of Marawaka picked up a very sick kid with a new southern doc on board.
The kid expired on climb out and the doc said we may as well turn back.
I had to persuade him the Kukakukas wouldnt like putting a live kid on a plane and ten minutes later have him returned dead ..
We continued to Goroka.