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Where tall stories are accepted as fact. War stories are applauded. Grab a Brownie, pull up a story and join in a trip down memory lane!!! 
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PNG Ples Bilong Tok Tok
Man Bilong Balus long PNG
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Really can't remember exactly how many schoolkids I managed to get into a Simbu Islander (SAB. formerly Dz DNV) out of Tapini one day but was in excess of 22.
May have been 27 POB.
And only ever got to 17'500' in A BN 2.
May have been 27 POB.
And only ever got to 17'500' in A BN 2.
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FL215 in BN2
During a refugee relocation exercise Vanimo to Kiunga (1988 I think) I was tasked to follow the twin otter carrying excess baggage then empty back to Vanimo. Ordered up an O2 bottle from Garoka and after take off Kiunga just headed north and kept climbing.
I informed Moresby with each step climb but they became concerned when I went above FL200. Why should I know a clearance was required above FL200 I was a VFR lad!! So they said call them on arrival Vanimo. At Vanimo I thought I'd better call CP first (Tony Skelton) and tell him what I had done....all he asked was "How high did you get??
The only thing that stopped me going higher was the controls became very stiff so I thought I'd better call it a day. Not bad for an islander although ISK was a 300.
I informed Moresby with each step climb but they became concerned when I went above FL200. Why should I know a clearance was required above FL200 I was a VFR lad!! So they said call them on arrival Vanimo. At Vanimo I thought I'd better call CP first (Tony Skelton) and tell him what I had done....all he asked was "How high did you get??
The only thing that stopped me going higher was the controls became very stiff so I thought I'd better call it a day. Not bad for an islander although ISK was a 300.
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How many??
Without casting aspersions on the previous posts regarding how many pax carried....here's the point! Where is the evidence?? easy to say 150 pob in a 206 but you need back up. I, at least, have a photo to prove my case.
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Bobby Gibbes once told me he believed the PNG record for a DC3 was 123 plantation labourers, all sitting on the floor, cargo net over the top. Until the practice was stopped by DCA in the 1950s, labouers were carried at 1/- pre pound, seated on the floor.
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Yes
Dwarfhunter, yes point taken (and a good one too) but look at this and compare to previous pic:
http://i768.photobucket.com/albums/x...acham/ISK2.jpg
http://i768.photobucket.com/albums/x...acham/ISK2.jpg
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Pinky.........
18 POB on a BN2 was my best............but I also I had a few sewing machines, bilums and piccaninnies besides the adults on that little trip.
I only ever got one one (-260) up to about 16K (VH-MKN if memory serves me correctly). And the -260 was a hell of a lot better than the -300 'in search of altitude' as I seem to recall.
Hope I'm not turning this thread into one of those:
I never really regarded the BN2 as being a type that would qualify for that sort of recognition I'm afraid!
So I guess you'll just have to humour us ex-PNG folks here Tidbinbilla, because while we're well and truly aware that you're one of the mods who does work for an airline (see post# 20 at http://www.pprune.org/dg-p-reporting...nal-pride.html), it seems like you're completely unaware that other PPRuNers have also done the same!
18 POB on a BN2 was my best............but I also I had a few sewing machines, bilums and piccaninnies besides the adults on that little trip.
I only ever got one one (-260) up to about 16K (VH-MKN if memory serves me correctly). And the -260 was a hell of a lot better than the -300 'in search of altitude' as I seem to recall.
Hope I'm not turning this thread into one of those:
Stupid threads between board mates which end up as "mutual admiration societies" stroking their egos, because their xyz aeroplane is better than the other bloke's abc
So I guess you'll just have to humour us ex-PNG folks here Tidbinbilla, because while we're well and truly aware that you're one of the mods who does work for an airline (see post# 20 at http://www.pprune.org/dg-p-reporting...nal-pride.html), it seems like you're completely unaware that other PPRuNers have also done the same!
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How Many in a C206?
Bozzo, mate, I don't give a cow's tit whether you or anyone else does or doesn't believe me - you think what you like - that's your prerogative. In my case VH -BCB as it was registered in those days could be fitted with what we called high density seating - the front two seats were standard, but the second and third row had three seats each, rather like deck chairs on a steel frame.
Three small merris were seated in each of these rows and each had a new born or small picannini on their lap, making twelve in those two rows, while I had a passenger sitting next to me, and from memory I was at the controls, making the fourteen
Three small merris were seated in each of these rows and each had a new born or small picannini on their lap, making twelve in those two rows, while I had a passenger sitting next to me, and from memory I was at the controls, making the fourteen
high density seating - the front two seats were standard, but the second and third row had three seats each
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Yes mendi63 I believe you are right!
MAF were good at rigging up little gadgets, the emergency fuel line for the 206 and 185 spring to mind but I don't think anyone took that one up?
MAF were good at rigging up little gadgets, the emergency fuel line for the 206 and 185 spring to mind but I don't think anyone took that one up?
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moaning olgeta (freudian slip?)
g'day swaziboy from me in Oz - never been to Wapenamanda - but hear it's a great place. Welcome to the forum and the great stories, which judging from my experience seem to be understated somewhat. From looking at the map years ago I seem to remember Wapenamanda is about 5000' and there's a big hill about 9000' clostu and some even bigger a bit further away. What's the place like thesedays?
Cheers, Bill
Cheers, Bill
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Thought might make a small contribution to the enjoyment of all.
A sticker used to alert indigenous pax on how to use an ELT fixed to the wall in case the aeroplane (Balus) "Buggers" up.
Alison
A sticker used to alert indigenous pax on how to use an ELT fixed to the wall in case the aeroplane (Balus) "Buggers" up.
Alison