I had to fly some extra night hours for the issue of Aust Cpl
I see by my log I flew with D.Mckenzie in VH SAC and R.Berry in VH EOM at the SPAC Port Morbid 1970.

Kiwis werent required to do night flight for issue of CPL., probably because theyre nocturnal.

:}

prospector check your PMs

Tinpis,
Checked. When reply sent tells me your mailbox full.

Prospector

Soz cuzzy try again :O

This thread has 220 plus posts, 10,700 views. I'm amazed - I didn't think there was so many literate airline employees, ex PNG! :}

I seem to recall some problem if a thread goes beyond approximately 100 posts. Will check with The Boss and if so, may need to start a new thread.

Lukim yu! :ok:

Lapun Woomera

Taildragger; Thanks for the correction and info!:ok:

You only live twice. Once when
you're born. Once when
you've looked death in the face.

Woomera

Some are still there... and enjoying it I hope!!!!

lapuns
 

Woomera, wantok bilong mipela,

Shame on you, when I asked you to start , PNG TOK TOK, I knew that I, hadn't gone longlong, so there had to be, wan, or tupela wantoks out there, besides yupela na mi , that still had plenti tingting.

Tongue in cheek, of course.

I too, am surprised at the response!!!

Please, do whatever it takes, to keep the thread going.

I started in PNG around the same time as SHARPIE, and it is magic to rehear the old stories and the new ones, that is, those wantoks that were there after 1974.

Once again, PLEASE keep the thread going

apinun

robroy




"I started in PNG around the same time as SHARPIE..."

Geeze Mate, ya must be OLD!!!

:}

Woomera

There appears to be a lot of young fellas on this thread. I'd love to hear some stories from some of the guy's of my era - 1960's!!! Ok, so I'm old... but not finished (as I've been told!!)

Animal Club. 1960s.!!!!????? In yer dreams pal.
Save that for the Sheilas who are short sighted.!!

Taily if you can bear to tell how about relating what happened to you in the Dero all those years ago?

http://photos.airliners.net/86189652...6/8/162867.jpg


Is this the fletcher operated by Dave Miles in Vanimo?

Taildragger I like talking braille to ladies!!!!

tinpis Couldn't see your picture. Why?

Yeah, well I don't know about young...I just turned 43...Animalclub I was being potty trained in the early/mid 60s...my PNG era began 20 yrs later...albeit in a 1963 model C185, P2-BAF:}

Just got back from London where I enjoyed catching up with Taildragger...I watched him go down at the Dero:ugh: and we share one or two other adventures...in fact on another occasion we went down together...near the Dero:} :{ :ok:

Here ya go tinpis, this might help to tell the story of Taily's near-death experiences. :uhoh: :ooh: :eek:
Taildragger's Photo Album

I'll bet that Taily had forgotten that this was still online... :}

Chimbu it's a pity Taildragger has stopped drinking "The McCallum". He's caught me in Dukes at Cairns more than once!!!

P.S. I used to be in PNG in the 70's 80's and 90's so we could have crossed paths.

Oh joy Ozex....I'd almost forgotten too:E :(

And we didn't hit a pole or swerve all over the highway...how we didn't land upside down on the highway is quite a different matter...Melanesian workmaship is all I can put it down to.

Yu kam bak long entap!

:}

The old Dukes Restaurant in Lake Street was a favourite of mine back in the 80s Animalclub. The ony place in Cairns where you could get a full service meal at 3AM! :ok: I guess you also knew John Hughes and Manuel David eh?

Weren't you in Lae most of the time? If so, that might account for why you and Taily mightn't have crossed paths too often. He was almost a fixture at the old Temple tho! :}

Yes Chuck, you really lucked in there mate. Image the outcome if you hadn't found that perfectly surfaced, macademised road - complete with kerbing and guttering! :}

New to the site
 

Well wantoks, I had this thread sent to me by a work mate who was it a couple of the PNG towers in the sixties and seventies.
Nice to see some of you are still alive.
I was the mug with the camera who got mentioned back on some of the early pages.
I go under this handle on a couple of surfing sites so it's easier to use it than forget a new handle I come up with... gettin' old and a bit forgetful although not as bad the ex hostess I married.
I was talking to John Mc Cormack last year and had a bunch of photos of us when we were fearless and he said, " We used to tell you to put the bloody camera away back then... thank God ya didn't listen to us.
I seem to have photos of nearly every one in Ansett in those days yet Sharpie might have gotten through the net and missed out.
I see Lorna Jarrold's demise got a mention. She was a close mate of the "ex hostie", they talked about every second day. It was quick. Ken is slowly getting over the trauma and I'll see if he wants to get on here some time in the future.
Sixties

Got an email tonight suggesting IDL was possibly sabotaged...cut control cables...that'd mean ol' Ian David Leslie was murdered...Mal been experiencing some of the same with his choppers...was a time not so long ago that the natives wouldn't dream of touching a balus.

I guess PNG just keeps sliding down hill...we can hang on to our memories of what fun we had in our misspent youth but PNG is a different place.

EDIT: No Oz...lucked out would have been no power substation right where I needed to land...or being close enough to make Jackson's...we were very lucky the hook bent straight on the cable anchor...ever seen the road surface from 30' up pointing straight down? I do remember the PMV, which was approaching rapidly headon before hitting the cable, skidding off the side of the road in a cloud of dust after being presented with a plan view...so I guess that makes hitting the cable lucky too...better than a head on with a PMV full of highlanders.:mad: :E :ok: :} How we had enough airspeed after hitting the cable for me to still get it down on it's wheels is something that has exercised my mind from time to time. :ooh: :uhoh: ...but must maintain a sense of humour about these things:}