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Pfffftttt....Kamalai...
ANO.48 license to get lost,,,,
One day after hauling coffee sacks in the Porter out of a ****ty little area right in the middle of a village, a Kiap rode up on his motorbike and thanked me for my effort but suggested next time I should use the airstrip over the next ridge like the other guys did.
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ANO.48 license to get lost,,,,
One day after hauling coffee sacks in the Porter out of a ****ty little area right in the middle of a village, a Kiap rode up on his motorbike and thanked me for my effort but suggested next time I should use the airstrip over the next ridge like the other guys did.
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Unreal !!
hard to imagine how many love bites the seat cushion would've gotten during the first few months over there, think I'd still be fluffing bits of rubber
Awesome stuff
hard to imagine how many love bites the seat cushion would've gotten during the first few months over there, think I'd still be fluffing bits of rubber
Awesome stuff
Grandpa Aerotart
Tinny legend has it you Porter pilots used to back the aircraft into the missios shed and take off across the strip
I would have crawled over broken glass to fly that aeroplane but they were all gone by the time I got to PNG.
These pictures of an Islander departing Kanobea were taken by another pilot and posted here on Pprune years ago and I saved them to my hard drive. My time in PNG was LONG before digital cameras and laptops and most of my own pictures were destroyed so I have spent years collecting copies of piccies from mates etc.
Kanobea is on a 'ledge' 4500' amsl with a high ridge line close on one side, a smaller ridge line straight off the end which you had to turn before and in the windy season (Nov-Mar from memory) a strong wind blew over that ridge giving a quartering cross/tailwind for landing - headwind for takeoff - but areas of very strong updrafts and downdrafts on the approach/departure. One of the guys suffered a left prop failure about where the Islander is in the first picture and had rolled upside down and crashed by the 3rd picture. For years after you could see the wreckage clearly which was a constant reminder of how much luck effects all our lives. One of the other guys (now in VB) had to land and depart through the smoke from the burning Islander which would have to be the most unpleasant feeling.
I can't access the rest of the sequence but will post when I can...you end up hard up against that ridge still turning.
I would have crawled over broken glass to fly that aeroplane but they were all gone by the time I got to PNG.
These pictures of an Islander departing Kanobea were taken by another pilot and posted here on Pprune years ago and I saved them to my hard drive. My time in PNG was LONG before digital cameras and laptops and most of my own pictures were destroyed so I have spent years collecting copies of piccies from mates etc.
Kanobea is on a 'ledge' 4500' amsl with a high ridge line close on one side, a smaller ridge line straight off the end which you had to turn before and in the windy season (Nov-Mar from memory) a strong wind blew over that ridge giving a quartering cross/tailwind for landing - headwind for takeoff - but areas of very strong updrafts and downdrafts on the approach/departure. One of the guys suffered a left prop failure about where the Islander is in the first picture and had rolled upside down and crashed by the 3rd picture. For years after you could see the wreckage clearly which was a constant reminder of how much luck effects all our lives. One of the other guys (now in VB) had to land and depart through the smoke from the burning Islander which would have to be the most unpleasant feeling.
I can't access the rest of the sequence but will post when I can...you end up hard up against that ridge still turning.
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Another view of Kanabea.
Thanks for the post Chuck.
The above quote could apply to all of us whom were fortunate enough to have flown there. The reason I attribute to my survival is quite simply that it was'nt my time to go!
As for Kanabea being my least favourite strip; Yeah, guess so! Though I once near s**t myself at Oram.
Thanks for the post Chuck.
There is NOT ONE GOOD REASON why I survived that first year...I did some REALLY dumb things...all I can do is prostrate myself and claim 'young, dumb and full of cum'.
But I was having fun!!!!
But I was having fun!!!!
As for Kanabea being my least favourite strip; Yeah, guess so! Though I once near s**t myself at Oram.
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Fantastic posts Chuck. I love the PNG stories - have even read the entire PNG thread - those stories of yours are riveting.
After reading the PNG thread and all the new PNG threads that pop up from time to time I guess some aspects of PNG flying have changed a bit since your days there - but the terrain and wx have not!
Cheers mate.
After reading the PNG thread and all the new PNG threads that pop up from time to time I guess some aspects of PNG flying have changed a bit since your days there - but the terrain and wx have not!
Cheers mate.
Don't know about A/C type, but that looks suspiciously like the FTDK & Jaba squeezed in up the front! 
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Thats an assumption based on the number of screens in the photo!
I can understand your misguided guess however I do not have that much grey hair ...... yet!
J
Thats an assumption based on the number of screens in the photo!
I can understand your misguided guess however
I do not have that much grey hair ...... yet!J
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when it was there we had an issue with the fuel owner wasnt too happy!
Couldnt understand why he wouldnt give me a job in a 737 ...lol
Came in well i should say well b4 a Nav they were flying with
Couldnt understand why he wouldnt give me a job in a 737 ...lol
Came in well i should say well b4 a Nav they were flying with
Garman,
I read through it several times and tried to decypher it. I THINK this is what he was trying to say:
When it was there (in Jabiru), we had an issue with the fuel. The owner wasnt too happy! [What was wrong with the fuel? I don't know]
Couldn't understand why he wouldn't give me a job in a 737 ...lol [errr, that bit I don't quite get,
]
Came in well, I should say WELL before a Navajo they were flying with.
Hope that helps, I think,.
morno
I read through it several times and tried to decypher it. I THINK this is what he was trying to say:
When it was there (in Jabiru), we had an issue with the fuel. The owner wasnt too happy! [What was wrong with the fuel? I don't know]
Couldn't understand why he wouldn't give me a job in a 737 ...lol [errr, that bit I don't quite get,
]Came in well, I should say WELL before a Navajo they were flying with.
Hope that helps, I think,
.morno