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A thread where ex PNG geriatrics lapuns and long longs can live in the dim distant past.
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
Keith Black the ex Oksapmin Kiap is with PX.
For those that also may be interested, he has been forced to change his beer drinking habits, form having a few handles a night to a few dozen jugs a night ! Great fun apart from getting/falling out of bed the next afternoon to do it all again !
Top bloke, and will be missed when he will be forced to retire in a few years time when he hits 65.
Gilmore Lavoro and Rod Marsland who are ex Talair are currently with PX, Rod is currently the Dash 8 (All series) Fleet Captain. He's another top bloke, I just wish PX senior management could see that ! But that's another story.
By the way, if anyone wants some SOPs written, Keith Black would be the man to do the job, CASA may not approve them however the calls would be a good laugh and very practical.
Time for another SP !
Good night olgetta.
For those that also may be interested, he has been forced to change his beer drinking habits, form having a few handles a night to a few dozen jugs a night ! Great fun apart from getting/falling out of bed the next afternoon to do it all again !
Top bloke, and will be missed when he will be forced to retire in a few years time when he hits 65.
Gilmore Lavoro and Rod Marsland who are ex Talair are currently with PX, Rod is currently the Dash 8 (All series) Fleet Captain. He's another top bloke, I just wish PX senior management could see that ! But that's another story.
By the way, if anyone wants some SOPs written, Keith Black would be the man to do the job, CASA may not approve them however the calls would be a good laugh and very practical.
Time for another SP !
Good night olgetta.
Last edited by Waghi Warrior; 18th Apr 2011 at 09:28. Reason: Typo error, to sparked, thanks to too many SPs !
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Anyone get any close up pics? My vantage point was too far away. Should buy a lottery ticket!
Expat pilot escapes mishap in Mt Hagen
Post-Courier Online
Expat pilot escapes mishap in Mt Hagen
Post-Courier Online
Silly Old Git
The Hagen thing...
Home news
Attempts to get official comment from authorities in both Mt Hagen and Port Moresby were unsuccessful.
PAA’s telephone at Kagamuga airport is not working and the chief executive officer Joseph Kintau’s office referred the Post-Courier to Philip Pakop, general manager for regional airports.
Mr Parkop refused to say anything and referred us back to Mr Kintau’s office but he was not in.
A message was left with his secretary but Mr Kintau did not call back.
Home news
Attempts to get official comment from authorities in both Mt Hagen and Port Moresby were unsuccessful.
PAA’s telephone at Kagamuga airport is not working and the chief executive officer Joseph Kintau’s office referred the Post-Courier to Philip Pakop, general manager for regional airports.
Mr Parkop refused to say anything and referred us back to Mr Kintau’s office but he was not in.
A message was left with his secretary but Mr Kintau did not call back.
Hagen incident
Sounds pritty serious if you go by what was written in the paper,not that I believe that totally. Any idea who was involved ?
Maybe an aircraft type might shed some light.
Either way it sounds like the pilot was very lucky to get out alive.
Maybe an aircraft type might shed some light.
Either way it sounds like the pilot was very lucky to get out alive.
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Barry Miles
Regret to advise that Barry Miles ( ex Pixie ) has passed away after long illness. Funeral in Tewantin tomorrow ( Thursday ). Don't have any other details yet.
Larry Danielson was the name used by the singerModerator
And known as the Woolworths Bomber in Australia! 
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A little bit of DC3 history.
TsTsTs P2, doesn´t it say "DO NOT REMOVE THIS CARD FROM AIRCRAFT"
Good on you for keeping it as a bit of historical evidence.
I wonder which passenger, in case of an emergency, would really be interested in where the crash locator beacon was installed?
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A little bit of DC3 history.
TsTsTs P2, doesn´t it say "DO NOT REMOVE THIS CARD FROM AIRCRAFT"
Not guilty Your Honour. It must have fallen of the back of a DC3.
Not guilty Your Honour. It must have fallen of the back of a DC3.
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Bryan McCook began his account of his search for the missing C206
of Father Joe Walachy thus -
Very early one lousy, cloudy morning, in a Baron laden to the hilt with freshly killed beef, I was in a circling climb on the Ramu side of the Bena Gap looking for a hole in the cloud, big enough to duck through into the Goroka valley. There was a lot of cloud about on the mountains, though the Ramu valley was completely clear. One morning every week we’d fly into Dumpu cattle station, owned and pioneered by Bruce and Barbara Jephcott, for a load of beef, slaughtered the night before. In the cool of the morning, with the climb to 10,000 feet, refrigeration was taken care of.
There were few aircraft about at that time. All was quiet on the air waves till Madang called to advise me that a Cessna 206 was unreported on arrival at Kegl Sugl, a Catholic mission station at 8000 feet on the eastern slopes of Mount Wilhelm (14,783 ft). That mountain, the tallest in the Territory of New Guinea, was about 50 kilometres from where I was making my circling climb. Madang requested that I overfly the mission station at Kegl Sugl and advise whether or not the Cessna was on the airstrip. Early morning radio blackouts were common. ‘Safe landing’ reports from pilots were sometimes lost in the ether.
Happy to send the full extract to anyone who sends me a PM requesting same.
of Father Joe Walachy thus -
Very early one lousy, cloudy morning, in a Baron laden to the hilt with freshly killed beef, I was in a circling climb on the Ramu side of the Bena Gap looking for a hole in the cloud, big enough to duck through into the Goroka valley. There was a lot of cloud about on the mountains, though the Ramu valley was completely clear. One morning every week we’d fly into Dumpu cattle station, owned and pioneered by Bruce and Barbara Jephcott, for a load of beef, slaughtered the night before. In the cool of the morning, with the climb to 10,000 feet, refrigeration was taken care of.
There were few aircraft about at that time. All was quiet on the air waves till Madang called to advise me that a Cessna 206 was unreported on arrival at Kegl Sugl, a Catholic mission station at 8000 feet on the eastern slopes of Mount Wilhelm (14,783 ft). That mountain, the tallest in the Territory of New Guinea, was about 50 kilometres from where I was making my circling climb. Madang requested that I overfly the mission station at Kegl Sugl and advise whether or not the Cessna was on the airstrip. Early morning radio blackouts were common. ‘Safe landing’ reports from pilots were sometimes lost in the ether.
Happy to send the full extract to anyone who sends me a PM requesting same.