Tee hee...this was all a few years ago then...I used to fly Dash 7s for PX and they don't gotem anymore....and I knew the idiot who tried the se takeoff from Kiriwina too...tool...but as you say even the BASI fellas said "If he'd just done so and such he would have got away with it".
At the time I wonder how he figured an engine would airstart when he'd burned a starter motor out trying the normal way?
Not only was he sacked but had his PNG CPL revoked but still snuck in and out a few times on ferry flights!
Wild days....
Chuck
PS. I even managed to get a chap to get out of his boat while a big Hammerhead circled nearby...but then a twin otter at 2'/140kts will do that
