Some Local Excitememnt With a Happy Ending.
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Some Local Excitememnt With a Happy Ending.
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Re: Some Local Excitememnt With a Happy Ending.
Bodge tape?
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Re: Some Local Excitememnt With a Happy Ending.
They ain't going to fly it out! And I dunno what size vehicle they can get up to that gravel road.
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Re: Some Local Excitememnt With a Happy Ending.
Looks like a typical PNG strip. Pinky or self could fly it out of there as is.
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Re: Some Local Excitememnt With a Happy Ending.
Ailerons may make turning a corner a bit iffy.
Re: Some Local Excitememnt With a Happy Ending.
Couple of rolls of duct tape will fix it, or being Ozzies baling wire. No probs.
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Re: Some Local Excitememnt With a Happy Ending.
Ummm....don't think I ever went into one that narrow, Alison. But if they could organise a few locals to widen it a bit (some wingtip clearance that is) I'd give it a go!Looks like a typical PNG strip. Pinky or self could fly it out of there as is.
BTW, you ever go into Kamulai?
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Re: Some Local Excitememnt With a Happy Ending.
Kamulai doesn't ring any bells. Might have known it by the mission station it serviced. Most often flights would be Kerema to Daru, or up the Septic - Telefomin, Ningurum, Kiunga, etc. Up to Vanimo occasionally. Flew into Mt Hagen and Goroka, but not as PiC.
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Re: Some Local Excitememnt With a Happy Ending.
Alison; You'd remember Kamulai if you ever went into it!! It was in the Goilala, just further 'up and around the corner' from Erume and across a valley from Guari.
Maybe in due course I will start a thread entitled ''Goat Tracks I landed on" or some such a title and put up the relevant photo and Strip diagram from the Douglas Airways 'Bible.'
Maybe in due course I will start a thread entitled ''Goat Tracks I landed on" or some such a title and put up the relevant photo and Strip diagram from the Douglas Airways 'Bible.'
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Re: Some Local Excitememnt With a Happy Ending.
I presume Alison and others with PNG experience are aware of Missionary Bush Pilot and his YouTube channel showing his trips in the Kodiak seemingly based in Goroka. If not - worth a look.
Re: Some Local Excitememnt With a Happy Ending.
Creme he's got it easy. Try 45-50 years ago. Piston powered and no nav aids. If you broke it, you didn't get to go home until you fixed it. Nobody was going to come out looking for you. Get a mag drop, and keep going with fingers crossed, and hope. Call "ops-normal" to Moresby tower when overhead destination, hence our site name. Call again when departing. GPS and a glass cockpit, easy squeezy.
Alison
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Re: Some Local Excitememnt With a Happy Ending.
Yers!! Like the time I was once on a strip the wrong side of the Owen Stanley Ranges, late on a Friday afternoon and the starter motor on the LH engine of the Bongo Van I was flying went U/S.If you broke it, you didn't get to go home until you fixed it.
Will relate the story later in an appropriate thread.
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