Worst Place To Be A Pilot

[skywagondriver]

An excellent foray into flying in Indonesia with the emphasis on adventure in the 'last frontier' - maybe just a little hyped but not as much as other aviation reality shows.

It's nearly 45 years since I was flying in PNG, haven't been back, but last year I was fortunate enough to spend three weeks flying around in the right seat of a Porter to some of the strips in West Papua - what a blast

I'd give anything to be back in that environment again...pre-dawn departure, high transit [sometimes very high] in the gathering dawn, an arrival into the first strip almost at first light, throw the cargo and pax out, new ones in and back to Timika for some noodles and then the next flight...

The feeling that you have done something really useful...

Don't understand why they have to get most of their crew from Europe... a few Kiwis there, but what happened to the Antipodian sense of adventure