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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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Thanks CC. No problems with the tax-man here. The last few weeks on the market have seen to that. Ah well. There's always the bottle. How do they make it so cheap ? Cheers. Barryhoc.
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Handywork of a certain pilot who has a record of runway overruns I hear...
Landed long and saw things going pear shaped and decided to fix by feathering the prop
Last I heard the engine had been removed and sent away. Acft still on the ground Tufi.
All in all a rather expensive exercise I'd reckon!
Landed long and saw things going pear shaped and decided to fix by feathering the prop
Last I heard the engine had been removed and sent away. Acft still on the ground Tufi.
All in all a rather expensive exercise I'd reckon!
Oh dear, that Trickey manouver has been tested previously, at Caloundra, with similar results! 
But at Tufi he is in illustrious company - a certain CASA senior manager preceded him many years ago in a DHC4 Caribou..........
But at Tufi he is in illustrious company - a certain CASA senior manager preceded him many years ago in a DHC4 Caribou..........
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Hey Torres! How many Caribou's did the boys in blue park forever in PNG?
By the way, a bit of info from today's posguria.
Airport security getting slack
ONCE again another senior government official has been able to beat the security system at the Jacksons Airport to take live ammunition on an Air Niugini flight to Singapore.
First a senior officer took a pistol on a flight to the same destination. Now it is ammunition.
What is going on? The Civil Aviation Authority and Air Niugini must explain how this lapse in security happened. It is making a mockery of Papua New Guinea in the eyes of the international aviation community, let alone governments which are working extremely hard to tackle terrorism, transnational crime as well as preventing the carriage of dangerous goods such as firearms and ammunition on passenger airliners. What has happened is a very serious breach of airline security and a thorough investigation must be carried out and whoever is found to have been involved, should be charged and prosecuted.
We hope this time around we will see a successful prosecution before the courts and not another lame excuse as has happened in the past.
All evidence relating to this case must be safeguarded and produced in court. There should be no more excuses of evidence suddenly going missing.
This is not the first time ammunition has been carried on flights without detection by airport security. It is a serious lapse which if allowed to continue undeterred can pose a serious threat to aviation security in the future. Airline security companies also need to ensure their staff at the airport are not allowing such dangerous goods to be carried on the flights, both domestic and international.
International experiences should warn us that any lapses in aviation security could lead to PNG paying a high price for such lapses.
All over the world governments are taking strong measures to secure airports and ensuring that passengers moving in and out of the various ports are thoroughly checked by security. PNG authorities know that this country is not an exception.
We must do our part and show the rest of the world we are just as concerned and are doing our best to enforce aviation security measures that guarantee the safety of the travelling public as well as aircraft.
Countries that Air Niugini flies to have zero tolerance over the unauthorised carriage of firearms or ammunition on aircraft entering their countries, and if PNG continues to show laxity in its attitude towards aviation security then our national flag carrier could be banned from flying to those countries.
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By the way, a bit of info from today's posguria.
Airport security getting slack
ONCE again another senior government official has been able to beat the security system at the Jacksons Airport to take live ammunition on an Air Niugini flight to Singapore.
First a senior officer took a pistol on a flight to the same destination. Now it is ammunition.
What is going on? The Civil Aviation Authority and Air Niugini must explain how this lapse in security happened. It is making a mockery of Papua New Guinea in the eyes of the international aviation community, let alone governments which are working extremely hard to tackle terrorism, transnational crime as well as preventing the carriage of dangerous goods such as firearms and ammunition on passenger airliners. What has happened is a very serious breach of airline security and a thorough investigation must be carried out and whoever is found to have been involved, should be charged and prosecuted.
We hope this time around we will see a successful prosecution before the courts and not another lame excuse as has happened in the past.
All evidence relating to this case must be safeguarded and produced in court. There should be no more excuses of evidence suddenly going missing.
This is not the first time ammunition has been carried on flights without detection by airport security. It is a serious lapse which if allowed to continue undeterred can pose a serious threat to aviation security in the future. Airline security companies also need to ensure their staff at the airport are not allowing such dangerous goods to be carried on the flights, both domestic and international.
International experiences should warn us that any lapses in aviation security could lead to PNG paying a high price for such lapses.
All over the world governments are taking strong measures to secure airports and ensuring that passengers moving in and out of the various ports are thoroughly checked by security. PNG authorities know that this country is not an exception.
We must do our part and show the rest of the world we are just as concerned and are doing our best to enforce aviation security measures that guarantee the safety of the travelling public as well as aircraft.
Countries that Air Niugini flies to have zero tolerance over the unauthorised carriage of firearms or ammunition on aircraft entering their countries, and if PNG continues to show laxity in its attitude towards aviation security then our national flag carrier could be banned from flying to those countries.
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From Thursday's Post Courier.
Moti report ‘lost’
THE Moti Inquiry report that cost the State K1.6 million to put together is “somewhere in the Prime Minister’s residence and cannot be located”, the National Court heard yesterday.
Presiding judge Justice Bernard Sakora ordered lawyers representing Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare, former chief secretary Joshua Kalinoe, PNG Defence Force chief of staff Captain Tom Ur and two others on Tuesday to furnish a copy of the report in court.
But the lawyers turned up empty handed yesterday, triggering the ire of the judge.
When Sir Michael’s lawyer Kerenga Kua told him the report had yet to be located, Justice Sakora said: “That’s not good enough, I have been asking for it since yesterday (Tuesday) and now I’m told the search is on”.
Earlier, Mr Kua told the court the report was in a box somewhere in Sir Michael’s residence and could not be found, as the Prime Minister was relocating from his private home to his official residence, Mirigini House.
Moti report ‘lost’
THE Moti Inquiry report that cost the State K1.6 million to put together is “somewhere in the Prime Minister’s residence and cannot be located”, the National Court heard yesterday.
Presiding judge Justice Bernard Sakora ordered lawyers representing Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare, former chief secretary Joshua Kalinoe, PNG Defence Force chief of staff Captain Tom Ur and two others on Tuesday to furnish a copy of the report in court.
But the lawyers turned up empty handed yesterday, triggering the ire of the judge.
When Sir Michael’s lawyer Kerenga Kua told him the report had yet to be located, Justice Sakora said: “That’s not good enough, I have been asking for it since yesterday (Tuesday) and now I’m told the search is on”.
Earlier, Mr Kua told the court the report was in a box somewhere in Sir Michael’s residence and could not be found, as the Prime Minister was relocating from his private home to his official residence, Mirigini House.
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And from Wednesday's Post Courier. Haven't worked out how running a freighter between Australia and Port Moresby will solve the ETOPS problem to Japan.
Airline sets record straight on Viva Macau
THE AIR Niugini leased Boeing 767-300 aircraft operated by Viva Macau Airlines will provide services to major international routes until a permanent Boeing 767 is introduced at the end of next month.
Air Niugini chief executive officer Wasantha Kumarasiri said this while replying to what he called misconceptions about the Viva Macau B767-300 operational routes.
Mr Kumarasiri said the Viva Macau plane was similar to the one previously leased by Air Niugini for the past five years where the aircraft had 24 business and 221 economy class seats configuration and a similar freight carrying capacity.
“However, the aircraft is not an Extended Twin Engine Operation (ETOPS) rated, which means that it must operate on routes where it can be within 60 minutes of an alternative airport at any one time during the course of its flight routines,” Mr Kumarasiri said.
He said this meant that Air Niugini was not able to operate its Port Moresby to Tokyo services by the most direct route, and must follow a more circuitous path closer to Indonesia, Philippines and Taiwanese land masses that offered alternate airports in the event of a mechanical defect.
“It does not mean the Viva Macau B767-300 can’t fly over water, but if it does so, the aircraft must still be within 60 minutes of an available airport,” Mr Kumarasiri said.
He said this type of flying would need additional fuel and resultantly some capacity restrictions which would affect the number of passengers and amount of cargo that could be uplifted on any given trip.
Mr Kumarasiri said Air Niugini was engaging a freighter service to ferry cargo between Australia and Port Moresby.
He said currently wide-body aircraft availability was extremely limited in the international aircraft market and Air Niugini had selected the best solution available.
“Since it is Air Niugini’s duty to uphold the highest level of safety for the travelling public, a vigorous independent safety audit of the airline as well as the aircraft was conducted as part of the requirement in choosing the agreement with Viva Macau Airlines,” Mr Kumarasiri said.
He said the findings of this safety audit had been accepted by all applicable regulatory authorities of the countries to which Air Niugini operates and essentially the audit was accepted by Air Niugini’s code share partner, the Qantas.
Meanwhile, Mr Kumarasiri while apologising to the international traveling public over the recent series of rolling delays causing inconveniences said it was not due to the arrival of the Viva Macau B767-300 aircraft.
Mr Kumarasiri said the delays were due to more administrative issues relating to the introduction of the Viva Macau B767-300 aircraft into various airports and had nothing to do with mechanical defects.
Airline sets record straight on Viva Macau
THE AIR Niugini leased Boeing 767-300 aircraft operated by Viva Macau Airlines will provide services to major international routes until a permanent Boeing 767 is introduced at the end of next month.
Air Niugini chief executive officer Wasantha Kumarasiri said this while replying to what he called misconceptions about the Viva Macau B767-300 operational routes.
Mr Kumarasiri said the Viva Macau plane was similar to the one previously leased by Air Niugini for the past five years where the aircraft had 24 business and 221 economy class seats configuration and a similar freight carrying capacity.
“However, the aircraft is not an Extended Twin Engine Operation (ETOPS) rated, which means that it must operate on routes where it can be within 60 minutes of an alternative airport at any one time during the course of its flight routines,” Mr Kumarasiri said.
He said this meant that Air Niugini was not able to operate its Port Moresby to Tokyo services by the most direct route, and must follow a more circuitous path closer to Indonesia, Philippines and Taiwanese land masses that offered alternate airports in the event of a mechanical defect.
“It does not mean the Viva Macau B767-300 can’t fly over water, but if it does so, the aircraft must still be within 60 minutes of an available airport,” Mr Kumarasiri said.
He said this type of flying would need additional fuel and resultantly some capacity restrictions which would affect the number of passengers and amount of cargo that could be uplifted on any given trip.
Mr Kumarasiri said Air Niugini was engaging a freighter service to ferry cargo between Australia and Port Moresby.
He said currently wide-body aircraft availability was extremely limited in the international aircraft market and Air Niugini had selected the best solution available.
“Since it is Air Niugini’s duty to uphold the highest level of safety for the travelling public, a vigorous independent safety audit of the airline as well as the aircraft was conducted as part of the requirement in choosing the agreement with Viva Macau Airlines,” Mr Kumarasiri said.
He said the findings of this safety audit had been accepted by all applicable regulatory authorities of the countries to which Air Niugini operates and essentially the audit was accepted by Air Niugini’s code share partner, the Qantas.
Meanwhile, Mr Kumarasiri while apologising to the international traveling public over the recent series of rolling delays causing inconveniences said it was not due to the arrival of the Viva Macau B767-300 aircraft.
Mr Kumarasiri said the delays were due to more administrative issues relating to the introduction of the Viva Macau B767-300 aircraft into various airports and had nothing to do with mechanical defects.
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anz.qf.or whatever, nothing new at all. At least the pixies are being a little consistent, especially when they leased the 'lemon' 76 ex anz lease, from was it qf? and then left the 310 in Mojave for 12 months at some US$800,000/month until a freight operater was ready to convert same to parcel post!
Even Hitler did not take Napoleon's history into consideration when he decided to have a go at the ruskies! So I suppose why would a group of
directors look back when the way is forward?
Even Hitler did not take Napoleon's history into consideration when he decided to have a go at the ruskies! So I suppose why would a group of
directors look back when the way is forward?
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moti? never hear of him!
Oh how forgetful one can be. reminds me of the (westwind?) aircraft parked with sniffer dogs going crazy! I am sure that they were not on heat.
Who instructed who to remove the dogs and cease further searching.
If I recall correctly, the same aircraft was lost into sea off Sydney some time later along with both pilots in an unrelated accident.
Who instructed who to remove the dogs and cease further searching.
If I recall correctly, the same aircraft was lost into sea off Sydney some time later along with both pilots in an unrelated accident.
Silly Old Git
If I recall correctly, the same aircraft was lost into sea off Sydney some time later along with both pilots in an unrelated accident.
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Good points!
It reminds me of a TV show many moons ago called "Yes Minister", a laugh a minute when a missing file is the subject.
"The art of the missing file, is to keep it missing until it turns up in a mysterious manner with a label marked priorty".
It reminds me of a TV show many moons ago called "Yes Minister", a laugh a minute when a missing file is the subject.
"The art of the missing file, is to keep it missing until it turns up in a mysterious manner with a label marked priorty".
Silly Old Git
Was having a yarn the other day with an old taim pnger
We were trying to recall where "Mr Walker " the kiap was based?
The fella used to sign his paperwork with a Phantom skull ring and refer to the locals as the "little people"
Another old time Sepik adventurer is still in the artifact trade
We were trying to recall where "Mr Walker " the kiap was based?
The fella used to sign his paperwork with a Phantom skull ring and refer to the locals as the "little people"
Another old time Sepik adventurer is still in the artifact trade
Man Bilong Balus long PNG
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On a previously mentioned subject; Anyone heard anything further on the fate of the B17 last heard of slowly rotting on the wharf at Lae?
