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Post by idaho2flyer on Mar 20, 2019 3:06:57 GMT
Landing at BLI. I forgot to start YASS so all of my screen shots of this flight except this one were lost. Bummer Allen
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Paughco
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Post by Paughco on Mar 21, 2019 16:31:37 GMT
Got a few shots during Flight 05. Here we are shortly after leaving Gurney:
Ernie's ass was tired, but those seat cushions we ordered from Amazon will never catch up with us at this rate:
Uh, Whisky, Tango, Foxtrot! That is one small strip for this bird, even if it's only a touch and go! Get ready on the throttles!
Had to hand the camera back to Nancy and fly the airplane!
Seeya ATB
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Post by shorty on Mar 24, 2019 1:22:19 GMT
Nice series of the 4th Leg Jazz, typical weather but I hope it gets better. I was reminded by your pictures of the Cape Rodney airport and the burning drums, when I lived in Rabaul there were no lights at the airport so no night flying, however whenever there was an emergency they would light the drums full of coconut husks to use to light or mark the runway at night.
Good to see some pics of the old DC-3 there ATB, hope you can get some more into the screenshots section.
Thanks Wayne ..... the F-27 is probably my fav aircraft, I flew in it a lot when i was growing up. When I finally left PNG in 1966 I flew on my first F-27 from Rabaul to Lae to Port Moresby then Cairns and Townsville. Ahhh the memories. Thats why I love the GAAR.
Shorty
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Post by Rob on Mar 24, 2019 2:59:34 GMT
Some great aviation stories around Shorty,
Back in 71 I was working for Qantas as an engineer, young and single. I was sent from Sydney to Moresby as their DC-4 had performed a nose gear up landing at Jacksons, we fixed her up enough to ferry her back to Sydney with the gear locked down. Three of the four props had to be change along with the pointy end of the fuselage and tail patched up enough for the ferry flight.
Why the tail, well the 4 had nosed into a ditch with the locals trying to pull her out with a rope wrapped around the Verticle stab, you can guess what happened there ?? That was a great trip with lots of booze, pretty girls on secondment and food.
Next trip to Moresby was a few years back to carry out some work on an Airlines of PNG Dash 8, Moresby had changed a lot and not so good these days.
Keep the stories coming guys, it all adds to the GAAR experience.
Rob
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Post by shorty on Mar 24, 2019 3:46:15 GMT
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Post by shorty on Mar 26, 2019 6:45:32 GMT
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Paughco
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Post by Paughco on Mar 27, 2019 3:29:47 GMT
Flight 07 was totally illegal. I don’t know who is in charge of this stuff, but if it was the USA I’d have folks from the VFAA rappellin’ out of those black PAVE Hawks, comin’ to take my ass away! Starting out, I checked in with ground control to ask for taxi instructions. They said that the field was IFR. I started to look into filing an IFR flight plan but Ernie just turned off the radio and said “Let’s go.” Climbing over those mountains was fun. Got her up to almost 200 mph on the descent on the other side. Flew out over the ocean to descend to 500 feet so we could approach Saidor. Got a nice shot out the side window. Madang was IFR also. We did a stealth GPS approach to Rwy 25. Nothin’ like it!
So here we are, heating up the engines, climbing at 1,000 fpm over the mountains:
Ernie never complained. I like him much better than that useless copilot in my A2A Connie. Here we are skimming the treetops as we try to make it through the monkey filled clouds:
Over the top. Hang the f**k on!
There's Saidor, coming out of the gloom!
Looks kinda funky. Don't think we'd be able to show Nancy much of a good time in that place.
It was a good flight. Nobody died.
Seeya ATB
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Post by jazzthom on Mar 27, 2019 12:35:26 GMT
Hey, cool pics,..that makes me think of flying the DC3 again! What type of DC3 do you exactly fly?
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Post by jazzthom on Mar 27, 2019 12:48:26 GMT
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Post by Paughco on Mar 27, 2019 15:38:52 GMT
Hey, cool pics,..that makes me think of flying the DC3 again! What type of DC3 do you exactly fly? Jazz: Thanks, man! I fly the Manfred Jahn v3.14 C-47 in DC-3 Airways livery in P3Dv4.4. Add "Accu-Feel" from A2A and it's close enough to A2A quality. Having Ernie the copilot and Nancy the stewardess add to the fun. Highly recommended.
I like that C-119! A long time ago I was in the Air Force ROTC and a bunch of us got a ride in a C-119. I got a few minutes in the left seat!
Seeya ATB
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Post by jazzthom on Mar 28, 2019 19:09:22 GMT
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Post by idaho2flyer on Mar 30, 2019 5:01:19 GMT
Leaving BLI
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Post by idaho2flyer on Mar 30, 2019 5:04:16 GMT
Enroute AYDU
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Post by idaho2flyer on Mar 30, 2019 5:06:47 GMT
Passing AYDU
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Post by idaho2flyer on Mar 30, 2019 5:10:02 GMT
Enroute Yam Island
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