DeRated wrote
Crowleys/Panga had a 207 P2-DMS working the Huon pennisular hills out of Lae in the mid 70's - much hated by the crew there.
As said, okay from sea level strips but ground hugging in the hot and high.
I had it briefly in Hoskins but refused to do the Bali/Witu sectors! Perhaps that's why they took it back........
Originally VH-DMS...came from AIRFAST when they bought Crowley.
Crowley sent me over to Bougainville with it and enjoyed flying it, even into places like Sabah [1600'] near Inus.
Back in Lae it was used a lot for helicopter crew changes and coming back to Lae from places like Kiunga high using oxygen made it easier.
Wasn't hated by the crews then but we probably didn't know any better as there were a couple of C205s and good old CSF then.
Any refusal to do any sector with it would have meant a ticket south when Laurie or the chief pilot was around...
