When in PNG....
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Last I saw there were more guns in Lae than people, both home made and state of the Art, Tari had loads of high powered weapons, and not scared to show them, and sleepy Madang also saw some pilots come close to the wrong end of a shot gun. Oh, is that Notam for Mt Hagen still valid stating "low flying aircraft could be shot at"?
Enjoy you'll have a GREAT time!
Lukim tru wanpela
Enjoy you'll have a GREAT time!
Lukim tru wanpela
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Keep your guard up. Young fellas who come over usually sleep with one eye open the first few nights, then a false sense of security sets in and next thing you know they've joined the Lamana Gold Club.
You may think it's a small risk and it's OK to run the gauntlet every now and then with the raskols AND police but I don't. Follow your instincts and remember prevention is better than cure - AVOID situations which could potentially turn nasty for you.
You may think it's a small risk and it's OK to run the gauntlet every now and then with the raskols AND police but I don't. Follow your instincts and remember prevention is better than cure - AVOID situations which could potentially turn nasty for you.
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Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make all of them yourself.
Never let an aircraft take you somewhere your brain didn't get to five minutes earlier.
Never let an aircraft take you somewhere your brain didn't get to five minutes earlier.
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Fook me, I start my tour of duty up those ways at the end of the month too...
What with the possibility of Malaria, gettin Jakked or making a bad D and smudging yourself on a hillside somewhere youd have to be keen
won't someone post something + so me and 2pissed can rest easy (ish)
What with the possibility of Malaria, gettin Jakked or making a bad D and smudging yourself on a hillside somewhere youd have to be keen
won't someone post something + so me and 2pissed can rest easy (ish)
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Originally Posted by Lineboy4life
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Enjoy!
Why not find somewhere safer to work, such as Iraq or Somalia ? Pay there will be far greater with better living conditions.
PS Local girls love the white boys. If you go into a night club expect a stream of them trying to pick you up.
PS Local girls love the white boys. If you go into a night club expect a stream of them trying to pick you up.
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You don't have to go to a nightclub for that to happen! Have had them singing out to me from the lush beer garden outside the dero while I'm walkin' around me aeroplane...! 
Silly Old Git
Iron will is all it takes
Take a copy of the Holy Bible and hold it before you and and sayeth loudly when leaving the Dero
"AWAY JEZABELL TAKE YOUR ROTTEN FLESH FROM HERE"
Start at about 4 kina mate
Take a copy of the Holy Bible and hold it before you and and sayeth loudly when leaving the Dero
"AWAY JEZABELL TAKE YOUR ROTTEN FLESH FROM HERE"
Start at about 4 kina mate
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A lot of good advice and precautions on these pages, all worth taking heed of. My two toea worth....enjoy the flying experience and live the moments. 
Many of us who flew there and have moved on to shinier, faster, electronic wonder machines look back on our days as a PNG Bush Pilot as some of the best times of our careers.
One definite item to take with you is a good digital camera, the investment will be well worth it. Take lots of pictures, there will be many opportunites to do so.
You can squeeze it in your nav bag between the Magnum and the bottle of bundy!
Many of us who flew there and have moved on to shinier, faster, electronic wonder machines look back on our days as a PNG Bush Pilot as some of the best times of our careers.
One definite item to take with you is a good digital camera, the investment will be well worth it. Take lots of pictures, there will be many opportunites to do so.
You can squeeze it in your nav bag between the Magnum and the bottle of bundy!
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Watching those African movies the Gods must be crazy 1/2 may give you an overview and at least good laugh.
Also,be prepared to to sit on the ground for some weeks pending your licence issue.PNG CAA are not user friendly and currently not issuing validations on contract states licences,which in the past would have had you operating within a few days.
Also,be prepared to to sit on the ground for some weeks pending your licence issue.PNG CAA are not user friendly and currently
not issuing validations on contract states licences,which in the past would have had you operating within a few days.
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When in PNG - Don't Loose the Company Car
When in PNG.........enjoy the flying, enjoy the SP, enjoy the Gold Club and enjoy the merri's and cause they r goin enjoy you at some time and point, from a betting man.
One word of advice, the company car. Don't go to anyone of the many seedy clubs at 3am in the morning by yourself and suddendly find a bunch of highlanders who are now suddenly your best mates. This may seem common sense to most.........but one chap was oblivious and wound up in the morning at Ella beach with his pants around his ankles.
Mean while the crazy highlanders are driving around the streets of Morseby whilst all the company pilots are out on a SAR (streets of Morseby) looking for there car and pilot who has gone awol. Some mothers do have em..........
Ah PNG the land of the unexpected.......rarely a dull moment on the ground or in the air!
One word of advice, the company car. Don't go to anyone of the many seedy clubs at 3am in the morning by yourself and suddendly find a bunch of highlanders who are now suddenly your best mates. This may seem common sense to most.........but one chap was oblivious and wound up in the morning at Ella beach with his pants around his ankles
.Mean while the crazy highlanders are driving around the streets of Morseby whilst all the company pilots are out on a SAR (streets of Morseby) looking for there car and pilot who has gone awol. Some mothers do have em..........
Ah PNG the land of the unexpected.......rarely a dull moment on the ground or in the air!
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won't someone post something + so me and 2pissed can rest easy (ish)
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Olaman! Ol yangpela man i laik bosim balus long ples bilong yumi, tasol planti bai kungrutim balus long mountain ya! Sapos yu tingim olsem cloud i no inap long kilim yu, lukout tasol long ol graun insait long cloud, i gat planti long hap. Yu mas lukautim gut ol samtin bilong yu long haus, ol raskol bai paitim yu na stilim quick, tru ya! Ol Two-Kina meri tu yu mas abrusim ol stret, noken tingim olsem ol i gat gutpela samtin, yu bai kamap bel sori nogut tru, harim! Kok bilong yu bai sori, na yu tu bai sori. Noken spak wantaim ol bossbalus bilong Russia, yu bai slip i stap long de na ol bai wok tasol.
Well, if you work that out, you've probably been there long enough to experience it all!
Well, if you work that out, you've probably been there long enough to experience it all!
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Reminds me of a day in 1984 when I had two company cars stolen in 24 hours in Port Morbid, one being GHOCs pride and joy!
PX security found the guy with his wife doing the shopping in Boroko a few hours later. You see, the local guy didn't work for PX - but he did as he was told!!
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2 boys got a clobbering the other week at a very well known night time establishment, it wasn't you was it? young fellas getting a little carried away with being expats with money and thinking they can do what they want when in a third world country. This is not Melbourne or Sydney, women can be regarded as property here so you have to be careful which one you show overt attention to.
Hope they are now OK and have learnt a valuable lesson. Be careful boys!!
Hope they are now OK and have learnt a valuable lesson. Be careful boys!!
Silly Old Git
Reminds me of someone who was attacked 35 years ago in the Aviat carpark
(Yes Port Morbid was dangerous even then)
He fought off his attackers,one armed with a rock the other with a screwdriver
As they fled he grabbed and ripped out a fistful of underpants.
The shreddies were given to the local cop shop with instructions to find the man they belonged to.
(Yes Port Morbid was dangerous even then)
He fought off his attackers,one armed with a rock the other with a screwdriver
As they fled he grabbed and ripped out a fistful of underpants.
The shreddies were given to the local cop shop with instructions to find the man they belonged to.
Grandpa Aerotart
won't someone post something + so me and 2pissed can rest easy (ish)
"Jasper can you tell me something to hang my hat on that will keep me alive long enough to learn a few things?"
With that look and smile Jasper is famous for "We have been all week, Chuck"
He'd been flying in PNG for 30 odd years THEN...starting in Norsemans casually for Gibbes Sepik and flying 'freezer' to Chimbu in a Tiger Moth while working as an ATC in the Tower at Goroka before joining Ansett MAL as a FO on the DC3.
Wonderfull, wonderfull times...13.5 years I wish I could relive...well 99% of it
Grandpa Aerotart
Best piece of advice in the thread...'Never do anything stupid, quickly'
Now if someone had told me THAT early on it might have saved me from a fright or three
On a more serious not...the next day while sitting in the Talair terminal awaiting my ride to Chimbu, a 402A flown by 'Rash', I experienced seriously severe 'butterflies in the stomache'. I really was scared about what the future held. Over and over in my mind I said..."You can't do this...get on the burner and go home".
An hour or two later descending into the valleys around Chimbu sat in the RHS of the Talair 402 I gazed out and became absolutely bezotted with what I saw...just STUNNING countryside, much of it above us.....EVERY doubt vanished from my mind...I HAD to stay here and do this...but it was at least two more years before I stopped getting butterflies before going to work each day.
Now if someone had told me THAT early on it might have saved me from a fright or three
On a more serious not...the next day while sitting in the Talair terminal awaiting my ride to Chimbu, a 402A flown by 'Rash', I experienced seriously severe 'butterflies in the stomache'. I really was scared about what the future held. Over and over in my mind I said..."You can't do this...get on the burner and go home".
An hour or two later descending into the valleys around Chimbu sat in the RHS of the Talair 402 I gazed out and became absolutely bezotted with what I saw...just STUNNING countryside, much of it above us.....EVERY doubt vanished from my mind...I HAD to stay here and do this...but it was at least two more years before I stopped getting butterflies before going to work each day.