Unknown PNG Airstrips?
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Was just about to go to bed till Vegemite drew my attention to this thread......I have just had to have another shower....crapped myself reading these stories.... Chuckles...you are living on borrowed time.....you too Vegemite.
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F #3 sorry I should've said 'relatively easy'........mind you I've seen chaps ground loop a C185 at POM and HGU so perhaps the strip wasn't the limiting factor that day
Love the avgas trick. My fav was when sooty would hang off the pitot probe on an islander.......sidle up an select master switch on followed by pitot heat.......sit back and await developements.....always amazing how long it took for burning sensation to be connected with that part of the Balus to which they were hanging
I have a bunch of old video copies of various documentaries done on PNG in the late 60s and 70s. One is about a couple of teenage QF cadets who were farmed out to TAL and follows them charging around Omkali, Marawaka etc in there 206 and 185......they're probably 747 400 skippers these days. They also show a 44 year old Brian McCook among other PNG identities.
Tail Stand you are right.........it was soooooo much fun......but I'm happy I survived........don't know I'd be in a rush to go back to those strips in anything other than ideal conditions. You have to be young, dum and full of cum..........and current to do that stuff
Taildragger you should have seen some of the stupid stuff my peers got up to.........I was positively restrained......you know me....quiet, retiring bloke that I am
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Love the avgas trick. My fav was when sooty would hang off the pitot probe on an islander.......sidle up an select master switch on followed by pitot heat.......sit back and await developements.....always amazing how long it took for burning sensation to be connected with that part of the Balus to which they were hanging
I have a bunch of old video copies of various documentaries done on PNG in the late 60s and 70s. One is about a couple of teenage QF cadets who were farmed out to TAL and follows them charging around Omkali, Marawaka etc in there 206 and 185......they're probably 747 400 skippers these days. They also show a 44 year old Brian McCook among other PNG identities.
Tail Stand you are right.........it was soooooo much fun......but I'm happy I survived........don't know I'd be in a rush to go back to those strips in anything other than ideal conditions. You have to be young, dum and full of cum..........and current to do that stuff
Taildragger you should have seen some of the stupid stuff my peers got up to.........I was positively restrained......you know me....quiet, retiring bloke that I am
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Photo No. 1
Marawaka
Photo No. 2
Omkali.
From the top of the strip you can look down the Wahgi river.
The ridge in the distance is about where the Asaro and the Wahgi meet and become the Tua river which goes on round
to Karamui/Bomai. I think. It was a long time ago. For
anyone who can remember Diamonds in the Sky [BBC ca1978], that was Windy in P2-SEG doing the uphill landing into Omkali
[14% slope - known at that stage as the overall steepest
RPT strip in the world].
Marawaka
Photo No. 2
Omkali.
From the top of the strip you can look down the Wahgi river.
The ridge in the distance is about where the Asaro and the Wahgi meet and become the Tua river which goes on round
to Karamui/Bomai. I think. It was a long time ago. For
anyone who can remember Diamonds in the Sky [BBC ca1978], that was Windy in P2-SEG doing the uphill landing into Omkali
[14% slope - known at that stage as the overall steepest
RPT strip in the world].
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How's this for an airstrip
I just received this anonymous donation from a benefactor who is, of course, yet another PNG aviator. He asks the question : "How's this for an airstrip? with some justification.
Just as a hint, it's one of those that has already been discussed on this thread. Doncha just luuurve the short field landing capabilities of the average Twotter?
And, as I've just now caught up with Windy's post, it would seem like a fair bet that he and Chuck are likely to havta slug it out to resolve photo nr 2!
Just as a hint, it's one of those that has already been discussed on this thread. Doncha just luuurve the short field landing capabilities of the average Twotter?
And, as I've just now caught up with Windy's post, it would seem like a fair bet that he and Chuck are likely to havta slug it out to resolve photo nr 2!
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windshear ya reckon that is Omkali?
So do I mate but I been gettin shouted down by folks werent even there when the bloody thing was CLOSED including Chuckles Ozemate.
I knows who ya are windy ask Torres who me is.
ozemate
Thats not the airstrip its the bloody parking bay
So do I mate but I been gettin shouted down by folks werent even there when the bloody thing was CLOSED including Chuckles Ozemate.
I knows who ya are windy ask Torres who me is.
ozemate
Thats not the airstrip its the bloody parking bay
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Oz, hows the bunker going? Send me your email and i'll send you a few to add to "guess which goat track this is?" and to your collection.
Milesy... last seen walking in circles in the Nadzab terminal due to a blow-out on the LHS thong... and yelling (to be heard over the p!ssing rain)... "just a quick Kabwum Shags...!"
HJ
Milesy... last seen walking in circles in the Nadzab terminal due to a blow-out on the LHS thong... and yelling (to be heard over the p!ssing rain)... "just a quick Kabwum Shags...!"
HJ
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Veg... Having never had the ... errrm ... pleasure (?) of visiting Omkalai or Wonenara, I'm not setting meself up as an authority on either of them. I'm just farkin confused... There, that's my excuse and I'm stickin' to it!
E-mail en-root HJ ! I hear that the said "Milesy" continues to enjoy a dishonest living... something about Thailand came up in a recent discussion involving his name, but I can't imagine why...!
There, that's my excuse and I'm stickin' to it! E-mail en-root
HJ ! I hear that the said "Milesy" continues to enjoy a dishonest living... something about Thailand came up in a recent discussion involving his name, but I can't imagine why...!
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Bush Strips
Windy is on the money, Chuck you have been away too long.(gee how many years since you did any bush work shags, lol)
It does not matter how bad the airstip looks, as each strip has it own traps sometimes visible and sometimes hidden.
I am sure that anyone who has flown in this neck of the woods will agree, sometimes the friendlier stips will be the ones that bite.
ps Looks like a nice day at Selbang.
"Shags I said Balimo, not Salomo"
It does not matter how bad the airstip looks, as each strip has it own traps sometimes visible and sometimes hidden.
I am sure that anyone who has flown in this neck of the woods will agree, sometimes the friendlier stips will be the ones that bite.
ps Looks like a nice day at Selbang.
"Shags I said Balimo, not Salomo"
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Re: Bush Strips
Chuck you must be a PNG hero with some of your stories that I read.
Good to see that your imagination is still running wild shags.
(lol)
"Shags, see you at the dero"
Good to see that your imagination is still running wild shags.
(lol)
"Shags, see you at the dero"
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Milesy is still on the go.??? I last saw him in the Wantok Sports Bar in Angeles when he laid on a little diversion for a few of us with his string of Phillies doing things to each other that had even a hardened perv like me blushing..... Ah happy days.!!
Must be off now....the Womens institute has me on wheel chair duty tonight. See how my life has changed.
BTW Chuck....ever since you cured me of the habit, I have never again Farted in an aircraft.
Must be off now....the Womens institute has me on wheel chair duty tonight. See how my life has changed.
BTW Chuck....ever since you cured me of the habit, I have never again Farted in an aircraft.
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Hiya Windy,
Afraid no 2 is NOT OMKALI!!!!!
1/. The picture was taken in 1998 of an obviously serviceable airstrip whereas OMKALI has been closed since long before I went to PNG 86.
2/. Omkali sits on a ridge next to the Wahgi river not in a little valley.
3/. I'm only 95% certain it's Wonenara (Based on a picture in Balus 2 taken from a slightly different angle) as I only went there myself two or three times, but I'm 1000% certain it is not OMKALI or Tep tep.
I never landed at Omkali but being based in Chimbu for a year flew past it 6 or 7 times a day.
Diamonds in the Sky is one of the videos I have a copy of !!!!!!
Raskol Mangi
All stories true I'm afraid Not a hero just a vet! To answer your question though haven't flown 'bush' since leaving the DHC7 and going onto the F28 in July 1996.
Re the latest offering......that's Kamalai as well.
How do I know? I landed the Twotter that is in the picture and stood next to Frank Halbauer as he took that picture. He had rung me the night before asking if he could accompany me to Kamalai the next morning to take some piccies. The purpose of the trip was to pick up pieces of an Islander that had been placed there with extreme prejudice by a certain chap who still operates out of Chimbu but who in those days flew out of POM.
Frank has a wonderful enlarged and framed version on his study wall which I requested a copy of last week while staying with him in BNE.........my original copy having been sacrificed to the volcano god in Rabaul.
Re Milesy.....last heard he was living the low life in Phom Penh, Cambodia!!!
Chuckles.
Afraid no 2 is NOT OMKALI!!!!!
1/. The picture was taken in 1998 of an obviously serviceable airstrip whereas OMKALI has been closed since long before I went to PNG 86.
2/. Omkali sits on a ridge next to the Wahgi river not in a little valley.
3/. I'm only 95% certain it's Wonenara (Based on a picture in Balus 2 taken from a slightly different angle) as I only went there myself two or three times, but I'm 1000% certain it is not OMKALI or Tep tep.
I never landed at Omkali but being based in Chimbu for a year flew past it 6 or 7 times a day.
Diamonds in the Sky is one of the videos I have a copy of !!!!!!
Raskol Mangi
All stories true I'm afraid
Not a hero just a vet! To answer your question though haven't flown 'bush' since leaving the DHC7 and going onto the F28 in July 1996. Re the latest offering......that's Kamalai as well.
How do I know? I landed the Twotter that is in the picture and stood next to Frank Halbauer as he took that picture. He had rung me the night before asking if he could accompany me to Kamalai the next morning to take some piccies. The purpose of the trip was to pick up pieces of an Islander that had been placed there with extreme prejudice by a certain chap who still operates out of Chimbu but who in those days flew out of POM.
Frank has a wonderful enlarged and framed version on his study wall which I requested a copy of last week while staying with him in BNE.........my original copy having been sacrificed to the volcano god in Rabaul.
Re Milesy.....last heard he was living the low life in Phom Penh, Cambodia!!!
Chuckles.
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I'm going to have to get my copy of "Diamonds" out and have a squiz at a young Windy.
Still no luck on that farkin strip outside POM.
Maybe Boxall of Cairns can help?
I'm going to have to get my copy of "Diamonds" out and have a squiz at a young Windy.
Still no luck on that farkin strip outside POM.
Maybe Boxall of Cairns can help?
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So, lemme see if I understand where we are right now...
Is that about the size of it? Well, at least the latest photo has been correctly identified as Kamulai! On with the debate!
- Sightings of Milesy have been frequent, numerous and, for the most part, living down to his usual form ;
- TD has given up farting in aeroplanes? Yeah... right...
- Photos 1 and 2 continue in dispute and we're shortly to see a stoush of epic proportions between Chuck and Windy ; and
- Veg wants to get another opinion, to add to the confusion!
Is that about the size of it?
Well, at least the latest photo has been correctly identified as Kamulai! On with the debate!
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G'day again Ozexpat, been keeping busy i hope. Can't help with the id on the pics apart from adding that No 2 ain't Tep Tep! Interesting some of the NDE stories, everyone has 'em even if they only came to PNG looking for a job.
As far as short strips go Kamina was about the shortest the NCA guys saw regularly at about 340 or 320 metres from our strip bible (seem to remember Tekadu being fairly short too), Kaintiba was the steepest at about 17% (both from memory). Sure would have loved to have seen Komako before it was 'lengthened' around the bend. Loved running coffee out of that joint in a 206. I think i sent you pictures of most of those places let me know if i didn't and i can email them across.
Speaking of washing grundies, i have a great 'pek pek warrer' story between Kamina and Kerema, where i donated some of bonds finest to the locals (literally) I imagine they are still walking around Kerema as we type
We all know Milesy was only to be found in Guts's 2 kina mari washtub or where the viagra was plentiful (and preferably free). I thought he would never sell out of the beeeuutiful Angels City.
Just a quick Kabwum, shags
As far as short strips go Kamina was about the shortest the NCA guys saw regularly at about 340 or 320 metres from our strip bible (seem to remember Tekadu being fairly short too), Kaintiba was the steepest at about 17% (both from memory). Sure would have loved to have seen Komako before it was 'lengthened' around the bend. Loved running coffee out of that joint in a 206. I think i sent you pictures of most of those places let me know if i didn't and i can email them across.
Speaking of washing grundies, i have a great 'pek pek warrer' story between Kamina and Kerema, where i donated some of bonds finest to the locals (literally) I imagine they are still walking around Kerema as we type
We all know Milesy was only to be found in Guts's 2 kina mari washtub or where the viagra was plentiful (and preferably free). I thought he would never sell out of the beeeuutiful Angels City.
Just a quick Kabwum, shags
Grandpa Aerotart
Oz Windy and I have been friends too long to stowsh over something so trivial...........he just has to look up some piccies of Omkali in the Balus trilogy to realise his honest mistake
Actually the two piccies of Kamalai from different angles make the point very well for Tail Stand when he says how different angles can make a strip look benign or not. Not that Kamalai looks benign from ANY ANGLE.
Come on we need some more piccies........this could be a great competition.......Guess the Goat Track!!!
Chuckles.
Actually the two piccies of Kamalai from different angles make the point very well for Tail Stand when he says how different angles can make a strip look benign or not. Not that Kamalai looks benign from ANY ANGLE.
Come on we need some more piccies........this could be a great competition.......Guess the Goat Track!!!
Chuckles.
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G'day Alistair mate! Long time no see! The photos you sent me last year were removed at Easter, as per the arrangement with you. I can put them all up again, or just a selection, if you like.
Speaking about blokes coming here looking for a job and getting a bit of an "experience", I remember one bloke who arrived just as Port Morbid was going thru the last Uni riots. I hope he finally found a job coz it was pretty clear he had the right drinking credentials!
Chuck... yeah mate, I know that you and Windy go waaaay back! I wuz just taking a bit of "poetic licence"...
But, YES, YES, YES, by all means, lets have a "Guess the Goat Track" competition. Each winner gets kudos ... and sympathy for leading such an unsheltered life!
Speaking about blokes coming here looking for a job and getting a bit of an "experience", I remember one bloke who arrived just as Port Morbid was going thru the last Uni riots. I hope he finally found a job coz it was pretty clear he had the right drinking credentials!
Chuck... yeah mate, I know that you and Windy go waaaay back! I wuz just taking a bit of "poetic licence"...
But, YES, YES, YES, by all means, lets have a "Guess the Goat Track" competition. Each winner gets kudos ... and sympathy for leading such an unsheltered life!