Working for a week in PNG.

[lurch]

for chuck...and others...

in case you missed it...
check out some of the pics from the 80's in Michael Butlers photo album on www.pngbd.com




even a HEAT balus on the last page....

[Chimbu chuckles]

Jaysus!!!

Hasn't Geeves been busy...8500+ posts in 2 years. Lotsa faces there...Juta Da Ruta being jus' one

Nice to see his piccy of Kamalai is MINE

Chuck.

[Night Watch]

Well that brought back a lot of memories..... I also flew for NCA, and that sounds exactly like I remember it. Although I believe that the company record for a flight form Indagen to Konge is 42 sec, set by a now 717 pilot. This is the same pilot that when I walked out to an islander for the afternoon flight to the west ports, I found the port nav light missing and a nice ding in the wing tip. When I asked what had happened he said "I hit a bird", I said "well sh*t happens, looks OK to fly". Was just about to jump in and start up when he added......"the bird was in a tree at the time", and as he walked off "have fun there is a bit of low cloud out there".

When flying ILS to ILS and 10000 ft runways, I often think about the time spent in PNG, and wish I could go back (without getting shot at on the Lae-Nadzab road)

[skycoolie]

Just browsing the forums, this brought back a heck of a lot of memories. I've flown in most parts of the world now, one day I figure I'll even get back to Oz, but it's always PNG that I recall most vividly in the 30 years I've had driving around the sky. The last time I saw some of these places was back in '78.

I spent 4 years flying in PNG. Lost some friends, made a heck of a lot of good ones though and still keep in touch. Although a lot of today's academics would argue with me, I reckon I owe my life on more than one occasion to the things I learnt from others (or learnt the hard way!) in PNG. It's not something you can get from a book or a lecture. The biggest lesson I learned there though, was that it wasn't that I was that good a driver, there were a heck of lot of guys better than me who managed to kill themselves there. Never underestimate good luck.

Thanks for the memories!

[Knulp]

Nice post there cow bay enjoy and but be very careful.

The biggest lesson I learned there though, was that it wasn't that I was that good a driver, there were a heck of lot of guys better than me who managed to kill themselves there. Never underestimate good luck.

So true skycoolie there was a few times I thought geezaz what chance have I got when old so and so speared in?

I remember old Peter Manser holding forth (in a bar) "Son, he said, if the gap is crappy just do a 360 and the weather will probably change".
How true that was.

[Sharpie]

Yes. Peter Manser was a bit of a character alright, with his hand clutching the round tin of Craven A cigs and a beer in t'other! Did he ever tell you abut the time he had a failure in the Auster and told the pax to jump when they hit the trees. Manser stuck upside down in the trees with poor old Oli wandering into the station sans red patrol box and axe not knowing that the arrival back to terra firma was not done every arrival!

Or the time he landed with quite a few branches stuck amongst the DC3 gear!

A great bloke really for an accountant and I flew many an hour with him in DC3's in the early 70's, one time landing at Jax when even Daugo was closed due wx. No ILS in those days and an aural null on the NDB helped get us home well below the minima.

[Herc Jerk]

nice one shags, thanks for the trip down memory lane- whats left of it

[banzaviator]

what ever happened to wasang from wasu????????