Animalclub; I knew not a few Talair and Douglas Pilots in the early 1990's that fitted that description most accurately! :ok:
So what is your point??:E :E

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

Pinky

You don't/didn't have to be a pilot to fit that description!!!

Of the 90 strong PNG sports team attending the Arafura games in Darwhine next week, 27 are pistol shooters.

:ok:

Can anyone identify this strip?

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y15...NiceRunway.jpg

Thanks

Woomera

.. mate, can I have a hi res file of that shot please .. ? I can see its being very useful in lectures when we get onto the "how to reduce runway slope effects ... "

The front slope is used by pilots with less than 2000 hours PNG time :p
Would love to see the overun at the top of the second slope.

Thankfully, W, I've never seen that one before. If the strip still exists these days, maybe someone like Chuck will know of it. However, if the 206 is a Talair (or TAL) machine, there's every chance that the strip has been closed sometime in the intervening 20+ years since that photo was taken. :D

John. The photo was sent to me by a mate in Europe who wanted the strip identified. Something in the long distant past tells me I've seen that strip before and it's in the Eastern Highlands, somewhere to the south of Goroka. That is the only photo I have but will ask if there is a better photo available.

Oz. The C206 looks to me like an MAF aircraft. TAL/Talair pilots were just a little mad - but never that mad!

Ask me how I know he's taking off .... not landing!!!!! :} :} Interesting accelerate/stop distance.......

If my memory is correct, I recall the strip due to a large cleared parking area at the top of the hill, which stands out from miles away like dog's goolies.

The photo is also a little distorted/foreshortened due to use of a telephoto lens. It's not quite as bad as it appears to be.

:}

More than likely Mission strip its got no cone markers and we needed a strip report everyday before operating.

I remember going into a mission strip (I think) in the late 70's as a pax in a mate's 185 and the names Kagi and Efogi come to mind.Could it be either of them?I know that at the end there was a dirty big cliff which dropped off to a riverbed I think.At any rate power or no power you were going to fly for a little while.On landing I remember the application of a ton of power to get up to the parking area at the top.Not a great strip for nervous fliers!Cheers 30/30:ok:

Kagi and Efogi were Cat C or D strips? Not Mission strips. Islanders used to go there.......

Strip
 

At least they are pretty consistent on lateral displacement from the centre, though if it was a croppy strip, the cockie would not like it as the wheel tracks could lead to future erosion.

Mi no save long ples!

Deffo not Kagi or Efogi they civilised in the Kokoda.
TAL never had a podded 206 to my knowledge and you would have only taken a 207 in there once.
Need an old god botherer pilot to look at this one.

:}

Certainly not Kagi, Efogi or any strip in the 'Jungles' (Kokoda) or Goilala that I ever went into! Just checked my old Dz one way strip book and cannot find any strip listed that resembles the piccy.

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

Talair 206, SEG had a pod, 1980, based Tabubil.

Muzza not im my day. 70's
Tabubil was short and as greasy as a butchers apron.]
Took in Geos and various other bits and pieces from Tari I think in the 70's.

There's no drop-off at the end of Efogi, just a LOT of bloody big trees to negotiate straight after take-off. Needed to keep plenty of power on after landing, to get up the hill and it doesn't have two distinct up-slopes such as those in the pic. In fact, if you weren't ready for it, the impression straight after landing was that the strip was much shorter than it looked on final approach, but that's because the slope reduces about half way up and you lose sight of it on landing.

I wasn't sure, from the pic, whether the 206 was in TAL or MAF colours. Doesn't make it any easier to identify with everything compressed by the telephoto lens.

Still no closer to identifying it other than to say that I'm sure that I've never even seen it. Thank God! :D

I'm sure I've seen that mission strip from the air somewhere south west of Goroka.

Blow up the picture and I'll bet pounds to peanuts it's an MAF aircraft from the colour scheme, including the wing tips.

Tinpis. I don't know of any Talair C206 that didn't have a pod at one time or the other. I'm sure our final nine C206's all had pods.

Just so I dont sound to silly I mean in my time I was flying TAL 206s 70-72

Yeah, Tabubil was slippery, even in 1980, but then so were many other things.