Hey Justinga, out of curiosity, what would be wrong with the Hicks Island airstrip? looks like about 650-700m and from what I've seen in the books the C402 takes about 650-700m of strip to land on without any kind of VG or STOL upgrades? Just purely out of curiosity, landing into strips they shouldn't be at would add another dimension to the argument of course!
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I had been spending all day converting pounds to kilos and back and as such just automatically did the same conversion from feet to metres, so if anyone saw the glaring mistake before I changed it...that is why!!