Worst Place To Be A Pilot
 

Starting on SBS next Monday night at 2030.

Gawd!!!!... thats a no brainer.

Excellent series, we've seen it a few months ago...and makes me want to fly there! proper challenging, interesting locals in native undress, and the approach decorated with the odd wreckage scattered en route... The approach down the mountain valley with no way out is especially interesting...

Yawn! Sounds like a typical day in PNG.

It was, anyway. Albeit a long time ago.

And I'd be a liar if I said I didn't miss it!:{:{

Think this show is in Irian Jaya but will still be interesting.:ok: IIRC I was told that both the highest and steepest strips were in that part of the world.

Tailwheel would know I should think.

United Sates?

Good show.

British based with mainly ex-pat British pilots.

Filmed in Papua.

Avail on youtube if you can't wait.

Watched it on YouTube a month or so ago and rather enjoyed it.

Unlike other shows such as bush pilots; it depicts the plane as a tool for survival and in fact as the (only) link to modern society for some of those remote communities which I thought was a rather unique.

I posted this on another thread that ran in the Spectators Balcony section of PPRUNE last year when this show first aired.

Well it's certainly better than the over-dramatised commentary of Air Rescue.

That's also a great show but so much better with the volume OFF!

An excellent foray into flying in Indonesia with the emphasis on adventure in the 'last frontier' - maybe just a little hyped but not as much as other aviation reality shows.

It's nearly 45 years since I was flying in PNG, haven't been back, but last year I was fortunate enough to spend three weeks flying around in the right seat of a Porter to some of the strips in West Papua - what a blast :)

I'd give anything to be back in that environment again...pre-dawn departure, high transit [sometimes very high] in the gathering dawn, an arrival into the first strip almost at first light, throw the cargo and pax out, new ones in and back to Timika for some noodles and then the next flight...

The feeling that you have done something really useful...

Don't understand why they have to get most of their crew from Europe... a few Kiwis there, but what happened to the Antipodian sense of adventure :)



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Struth!! :}

Turbine Aircraft!:cool:

Full IFR Glass panels!!:ooh:

No beat up, high time BN2s or C206s with suspect engines and no navaids!:eek:

Looooxury!!!!!

good series, not full of the American fake drama crap, though there is a little bit,

shame the series ended.



to be honest, the first thing that popped into my head was "Worst place to be a Pilot" oh, must be something to do with CASA!

Fantastic shots Skywaggondriver! Thanks.

The Antipodian sense of adventure was squashed by safety regulators and the pathetic public who listened. No one wants to employ nannies.

oooh there's a few of us here Bob -more from the Eastern Antipodes than the West Island, but we're well better represented than perhaps the producers would prefer you believe ;-) Most of the "nannies" tend to hail from points well further North -speaking very generally, the environment is well out of the comfort zone of many!

Fetch-up at the Nabire Social Club of a Saturday evening, you may well be surprised!

I am sure I would be but would the majority be over 40?

Not at all, although a few of us are... ages range from late teens to well into the 50's!

Ah the Nabire Social Club!

I do miss that place. Maybe I'll be back in a few months.

There is plenty of Aussies and Kiwis in West Papua.

skywagondriver, your photos are absolutely beautiful, they make the adventure of flying in this "worst place" quite real. Flying an airbus from LHR to Washington Dulles has to be a very very boring way to live by comparison.

There are flying hours, and there is flying experience. The two are not the same at all.

That CP, Vas, or whatever-his-name-is, is a bit nasty!

Tapini c1970. Solo nav exercise for PPL.

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South Pacific Aero Club Cherokee 180. After breathing sigh of relief.
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