Yeah, I got a calendar like that
TT.
1984 - Arrived in Paralyse in April, working for the (now) late YM as CFI. Became one of a team of unpaid bartenders at SPAC, which had only just reopened after a bankruptcy. Suffered two burglaries in my first 6 months in country.
1985 - Gained T+C approval for a small Port Morbid based charter company that is now long gone. Third burglary - even lost me U/Ds this time. Joined PNG DCA in December.
1986 - First Kingair endorsement. Did a couple flight tests - one pass and one fail. Became DCA's Airways Surveyor. Got diahorrea. First malaria diagnosis. Got diahorrea again. Produced my first instrument approach procedure - Vanimo.
1987 - Tried to teach an aeroplane to swim in the Gulf of Papua, but it drowned. Got diahorrea. Second malaria diagnosis.
1988 - More diahorrea ... still hadn't learned to cook meals for meself.
1989 - Enroute from Rabaul to Kieta on the day the BRA started their war by destroying airport facilities and a Bongo. Got diahorrea again - had started cooking my own meals by then. Another malaria diagnosis.
1990 - Almost had to get married (in Oz), but a blood test got me off the hook. Got diahorrea again. House burgled in my absense; they took me VCR, a three-quarter full bottle of good scotch whiskey and a half-full 2 litre tub of ice cream!
1991 - Got diahorrea again. Yet another malaria diagnosis. Escaped in December.
1996 - Recaptured. Got diahorrea again. Second Kingair endorsement.
1997 - ummm...
1998 - ummm...
1999 - ummm...
2000 - ummm...
2001 - ummm...
2002 - still here...
So ya see
Slash... things
could be worse!
