obie,
It seems a number of PPRuNers are trying to tell you that it's not easy flying in PNG (or, as I knew it, TPNG).
Look at:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/n...576-sc55-7.jpg
Find Efogi on the map, and then work out from the contours just what you are facing in terms of 'challenges' in that tiny area of PNG alone.............you can takeoff from Efogi and straight away be on a right base for Kagi! As was depicted pictorially in a previous post on this thread. Notice the steepness of the strip depicted? Well, obie, that one was 'tame' compared to some operated into as a matter of course day-in day-out in all sorts of weather in some areas of PNG at a time when no-one had GPS and you REALLY needed to know what you were doing to ensure your (continued) survival in what at times were bl00dy dangerous conditions!
And guess what obie..........it's the same through other areas of PNG! Try Komo for example. Or getting into Mendi from, say Moro, in sh1t weather. Or Tari on some mornings!
Wise words are being spoken on this thread from literally 000's and 000's of hours of collective experience of PNG flying obie, so maybe take heed of what other posters
and Tail Wheel are trying to tell you.
Thank you!
