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PNG Ples Bilong Tok Tok
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BANDITS IN GOROKA
Anyone here visited Goroka lately, just wondered if their are any ex airlink bandeirantes sitting there, if so, regos/condition ?, thanks, at least Goroka is where I am led to believe there are a few.
Airlink bandits
Fairly sure the engines will be gone anyway. Ran into a Kiwi engineer early in the year and he was off to PNG to grab the engines. Apparantly the airframes were of no interest or value to them and are most likely in the tip or being used as local housing. The Bandit engines are good for the twin Otters and Caravans among other things with changes to the exhaust system.
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was passing through GKA 3 months ago with 3/4 bandit airframes outside of Pacific on the apron with their wings grinded off at the roots however whilst passing through last (3 weeks ago) they had all but gone...(the 404 is still outside the aeroclub though)
3/4 months ago the old air-link hangars in Madang had a few bandits in eagle air (ANZ) colors and a heap of spares still present but I haven't been board enough during a stop over to have a nosy since...
always sad to see semi usable airframes go to the smelter...
3/4 months ago the old air-link hangars in Madang had a few bandits in eagle air (ANZ) colors and a heap of spares still present but I haven't been board enough during a stop over to have a nosy since...
always sad to see semi usable airframes go to the smelter...
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Grandpa Aerotart
Seen that vid before Tinny...when I was teaching young blokes to fly 185s in PNG they would have been sent home to Oz for flying like that.
He obviously thinks sneaking up and pouncing on strips is a valid technique - I'd suggest he has never had one minute training from someone who actually knew what they were doing.
Pretty terrain and some fun looking strips - although we would have taken Barons into the first 'tricky little strip' in Talair.
But you know that
He obviously thinks sneaking up and pouncing on strips is a valid technique - I'd suggest he has never had one minute training from someone who actually knew what they were doing.
Pretty terrain and some fun looking strips - although we would have taken Barons into the first 'tricky little strip' in Talair.
But you know that
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Silly Old Git
Thats the one Chuck, the "Sneak up on the bastard and pounce on it before it gets a chance to disappear"
Maybe he was playin' up for the camera, if not I wonder what hes doing now?
Maybe he was playin' up for the camera, if not I wonder what hes doing now?
if not I wonder what hes doing now
Grandpa Aerotart
Or when dey is mowing the strip at Kimina.
Troppo!!!
You're not seriously suggesting our good missionary friend would partake of the devils brew and sins of the flesh are you?
With the sound track from Mission Impossible playing in your head?
For some reason I have Belluschi in that scene from Blues Brothers in my minds eye.
Troppo!!!
You're not seriously suggesting our good missionary friend would partake of the devils brew and sins of the flesh are you?
Thats the one Chuck, the "Sneak up on the bastard and pounce on it before it gets a chance to disappear"
For some reason I have Belluschi in that scene from Blues Brothers in my minds eye.
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BOB JOHNS
.Talk of mowing the strip reminds me of the.time ole was towing a big roller behind a..Ferguson tractor at Nipa when traffic arrived at a level to be heard when ole s wantok who was having a ride on the roller took fright , fell off and got squashed.Well he was .taken to Mendi for a pm and a couple of days later was to be flown back to Nipa for his funeral. Typically. the afternoon weather was RS and the c185 pilot tasked with the job wasnt very happy. The missionary was fussing about getting in the way as they .do when said .pilot asked if indeed this was the roller victim. When confirmed the young pilot looked at the wx and asked the missionary what was so important- haste etc. when he (the victim) could be rolled up ,put in a tube and posted home and think of the money they would save--poor missionary nearly fainted but the flight departed any way.
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.... and another:
1. GOROKA C0792
1108230600/1109270900 EST. BTN 0600/0900 DLY. AD CTN DUE NUMEROUS UNAUTHORISED PEDESTRIAN MOV. (BEETLE SEASON).
I thought it was beetle (buai?) season all year!
Anyone shed light on this NOTAM comment?
1. GOROKA C0792
1108230600/1109270900 EST. BTN 0600/0900 DLY. AD CTN DUE NUMEROUS UNAUTHORISED PEDESTRIAN MOV. (BEETLE SEASON).
I thought it was beetle (buai?) season all year!
Anyone shed light on this NOTAM comment?
They are small edible beetles and around this time of year people collect them in the grass alongside the runway, normally in the evenings.
I have watched them do it whilst having a beer at the Aero many a time.
I have watched them do it whilst having a beer at the Aero many a time.
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Remember getting to the briefing office at 0 Dark Hundred one time to read a NOTAM which mentioned unauthorised pedestrian movement at Goroka 'due Beatle chasing.'
Yeah yeah yeah!
Yeah yeah yeah!
