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Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
30th Jan 2014, 09:52
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,056,956
Posted By shinbone

Gday Dogcharlietree, Fwiw I was at Lae as a tower...

Gday Dogcharlietree, Fwiw I was at Lae as a tower controller and participated in the search - my memory of events is quite different to the story on the didimen's link: the new arrival Robert Smith...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
12th Jun 2011, 23:30
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,056,956
Posted By shinbone

Thanks Bryan

Looking forward to learning more of your experiences which raise very pertinent questions re remote exercise of 'authority'.
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
23rd Mar 2011, 10:15
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,056,956
Posted By shinbone

VH EOM spac pa28

Don't know where it is now, but around Independence time an expat with a senior guvmin position used to fly it around a fair bit on some sort of building inspections, and I believe it was he who had...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
18th Mar 2011, 11:11
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,056,956
Posted By shinbone

Lae Tower

cac_sabre - the view from Lae tower I remember well, used to work there quite a few years ago, but I seem to remember we had moved to Nadzab by 1981. Use to fly for Cedric sometimes when he was short...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
15th Sep 2010, 07:55
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,056,956
Posted By shinbone

Hadda look at the ANG website; though I never...

Hadda look at the ANG website; though I never worked for them and thus can't catch up at the reunion, the many pix of old mates brought memories of PNG aviation days flooding back - Thanks Hanoi ;)
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
29th Jul 2010, 05:11
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,056,956
Posted By shinbone

Which DC3?

Thanks Tail Wheel, and especially for the pic - I have just come across Gavin Young's history of Cathay Pacific (Beyond Lion Rock) which is a great read, as the author has interviewed many of the old...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
28th Jul 2010, 07:02
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,056,956
Posted By shinbone

Which DC3?

Many Lapuns on this forum have probably heard the story of an ex WW2 DC3 bought post hostilities in USA by an ex hump pilot and becoming the founding Cathay Pacific aircraft (VR-HDB aka Betsy); sold...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
25th Jul 2010, 06:18
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,056,956
Posted By shinbone

Nostalgia

Troppo, I left in 1982, still haven't recovered, and pine for the delights you mention - they say the first thirty years are the worst.

Cheers, Bill
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
10th Jul 2010, 12:11
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,056,956
Posted By shinbone

Sialum Resort

yep, StorchPilot, thanks for posting your great pics, that one rings a bell.

Cheers, Bill
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
7th Jul 2010, 01:53
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,056,956
Posted By shinbone

Sialum 1973

.......Puts me in mind of the time there was a resort? at Sialum where I spent a liesurely weekend, used to have a small pier - picked up a 40mm shell from the water - seem to remember the strip was...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
4th Jun 2010, 07:10
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,056,956
Posted By shinbone

Inflation

1971 - One gallon of petrol 28 cents
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
3rd May 2010, 01:32
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,056,956
Posted By shinbone

Friends indeed

What type of "flying" are we talking about? There was an ATC whose nickname was a common skin disease in PNG whose wife kept the people in the dongas nearby awake when vocalising her paroxysms of...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
1st May 2010, 10:44
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,056,956
Posted By shinbone

Messes in PNG

Does anyone remember Igor who ran the DCA mess in Goroka in the early seventies - rough and tough - liked a tipple? - Or the DCA mess in Madang, same time, great place to stay? :cool:
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
25th Apr 2010, 04:52
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,056,956
Posted By shinbone

Amazing Achievements:

The older we get, the better we were! :ok:
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
1st Apr 2010, 10:35
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,056,956
Posted By shinbone

Thanks for the great photos and comments :ok: -...

Thanks for the great photos and comments :ok: - can anyone post one of Kasanombe? :)
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
23rd Mar 2010, 12:02
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,056,956
Posted By shinbone

Kasanombe

Is Kasanombe still operational?
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
25th Jan 2010, 01:04
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,056,956
Posted By shinbone

TAA Twotter

tinpis

During the famine in early seventies a TAA Twotter pilot invited me on a flight to Nipa loaded with, of all things, tinpis, as the kau kau crop had been frosted off (turned out the people...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
24th Jan 2010, 00:53
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,056,956
Posted By shinbone

Traders

One of the ATC SOC's in Moresby spent his spare time and some company time and telephones trying to flog watches (I got two phonecalls from him within a week of my arrival)...circa 1972

...and...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
4th Jan 2010, 08:03
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,056,956
Posted By shinbone

Accidents in PNG

G'day Storchpilot,
As far as I know there was only one C206 which crashed on climb at Garaina in 1974, so I am passing on my knowledge on that basis. I was en route Menyamya to Lae when flight...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
6th Dec 2009, 10:25
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,056,956
Posted By shinbone

moaning olgeta (freudian slip?)

g'day swaziboy from me in Oz - never been to Wapenamanda - but hear it's a great place. Welcome to the forum and the great stories, which judging from my experience seem to be understated somewhat....
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
30th Nov 2009, 07:02
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,056,956
Posted By shinbone

How Many in a C206?

Bozzo, mate, I don't give a cow's tit whether you or anyone else does or doesn't believe me - you think what you like - that's your prerogative. In my case VH -BCB as it was registered in those days...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
26th Nov 2009, 06:49
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,056,956
Posted By shinbone

How Many in a C206?

"Lae... BCB taxiing Pindiu for Lae 14 POB"

"BCB Lae, say again POB"

"BCB one four"

"BCB ... roger.... give us a call when you get in"
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
29th Sep 2009, 01:38
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,056,956
Posted By shinbone

Survival

There are a number of memories lurking at the back of my mind of occasions when I swore that if ever I was fortunate enough to land the C206 in one piece, I would never get in it again - the next day...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
26th Sep 2009, 05:55
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,056,956
Posted By shinbone

Tapini ILS

Thanks Chimbu chuckles, I never flew into Tapini, but had a few similar procedures which came in handy at the odd time. :rolleyes:
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
26th Sep 2009, 02:36
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,056,956
Posted By shinbone

Tapini ILS

Browsing from day one of PNG Ples Bilong Tok Tok, I must say many of the events that were heard vaguely on the grape vine while in PNG (1972 - 1982) have started to make some sense, but equally there...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
26th Sep 2009, 00:53
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,056,956
Posted By shinbone

G'day tinpis

Above 8/8's

Your story of searching for a way down reminded me of a flight Moresby to Bulolo to pick up the owner of the aircraft (Cessna 172, no navaids) and take him home to Singuau Plantation...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
25th Sep 2009, 09:08
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,056,956
Posted By shinbone

Chee Aiir

cac_sabre,

Would you know if Chee Aiir (who owned CBT) became 'Morobe Airways', if so the C206 could well have been BCB (busy bee) which many fledgelings earned their PNG wings on, as did I in 73....
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
22nd Sep 2009, 10:37
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,056,956
Posted By shinbone

P2-CBT

Thanks cac sabre, Hans was a Dutchman at Lae about 1971 - 73, who went on to fly jets for some airline in Europe I think, I didn't know Marius. When Hans was flying the Islander around he used to...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
22nd Sep 2009, 02:07
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,056,956
Posted By shinbone

Request for TALAIR Photos circra 79-83

G'day cac_sabre,

The BN2 of CheeAiir's in your photo (can't place the strip) oli callem CBT, and is that Hans Hammerschmikel hanging under the wing? :ok:

Cheers, Bill
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