Departing Malita (RP17) for WAMH
Departing Malita (RP17) for WAMH
"To some the sky is the limit. To others it is home" anon.
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein
Arrived at WAHM
Journalists interviewing a number of terrified locals who were seen hiding in the surrounding forest.
"To some the sky is the limit. To others it is home" anon.
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein
A few containers of samples donated to the tribal chief. Bundled the reporters back onboard except for one who decided to stay and exchange recipes with the tribal cook.
Off quickly to WA1A Sorong
"To some the sky is the limit. To others it is home" anon.
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein
Long-ish leg over shark-infested waters but safely down at Sorong.
Once again the pax were out in a flash taking pictures of the area.
Seems like there are a lot of broken aircraft bits tossed in the trees...
"To some the sky is the limit. To others it is home" anon.
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein
Extremely long time on the ground. Apparently the 'journalists' got into town and were interviewing some of the locals including a few young ladies who were very impressed with the "generosity" of previous race crews.. which led to an altercation with the ladies' friends, which.. well, the boys came back to the airport in a bit of a hurry and were glad that we could swivel the Martin top turret around to face the road...
So long Sorong - we are off to WABB
"To some the sky is the limit. To others it is home" anon.
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein
On the ground at WABB.
Looks like a nice spot for dinner. Maybe the magazine boys will think to have showers too...
"To some the sky is the limit. To others it is home" anon.
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein
Dawn is breaking, it's early morn,
The taxi's waiting, he's blowing his horn...
Departing the comforts of WABB for a Hayfield in the jungle
"To some the sky is the limit. To others it is home" anon.
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein
Arrived at HFD (Hayfield)
Navigator given ration of water and one can of Spam, a road map of Australia and a pink slip.
7.5 min of fuel remaining.
"To some the sky is the limit. To others it is home" anon.
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein
Hayfield to Gusap (GSP) following roads, ruts and rivers. Who needs a navigator?
"To some the sky is the limit. To others it is home" anon.
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein
Well, the 'walking cargo' was none too happy. Bit of a rough ride and all they could see on approach was jungle but they are off-loaded safely for another party with the locals. (Hope these aren't the sort to take cranial souvenirs...)
Arrived at Gusap (GSP)
"To some the sky is the limit. To others it is home" anon.
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein
Departing Gusap for Jacquinot Bay (JCB)
"To some the sky is the limit. To others it is home" anon.
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein
Safely arrived at JCB.
"To some the sky is the limit. To others it is home" anon.
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein
Always liked that B-26 in FS9. Didn't know it was tweaked for FSX. Have to look it up. I have the B-26 by "Radioman" for FSX. Not a bad ride.
MB: GIGABYTE GA-X299 UD4 PRO ATX
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MEM: 64GB (8GBx8) DDR4/3000MHz Quad Channel
GPU: RTX 3080 Ti 12GB GDDR6
OS: Win 10 Pro 64bit
HP Reverb G2
Hmm, not sure what a B-26 is. Maybe a screenshot would clear that up...
since you asked...
"To some the sky is the limit. To others it is home" anon.
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein
Departing JCB (Jacquinot Bay) for AYTK (Tokua -Rabaul)
"To some the sky is the limit. To others it is home" anon.
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein
Arrived AYTK
After rereading the discussion in the primary thread re: weather, I decided to run this leg as a test of FSrealWX lite.
After the series of clear/blue legs, this was a definite change and improvement(?) - layers of cloud, rain on departure, low ceilings and haze at destination - broke out at 1200ft, thankfully with an NDB to home to.
It may not be as benign, but it certainly is more interesting!
"To some the sky is the limit. To others it is home" anon.
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein
Continuing with FSrealWX lite...
Rabaul to MKO (Malekolon)
- hope that's not some harbinger of gastro-intestinal distress-
"To some the sky is the limit. To others it is home" anon.
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein
Arrived at MKO.
More showers and haze necessitating a circling approach as the Marauder doesn't have the same aerobatic capability as the little toys.
"To some the sky is the limit. To others it is home" anon.
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein
Guess the magazine boys are getting tired of taking pics of discarded candy wrappers, bent aircraft bits and piles of beer bottles that have been omnipresent along the route. They offered us a bonus to get to Buka in a hurry.
MKO - AYBK
"To some the sky is the limit. To others it is home" anon.
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein
Landed at Baku (AYBK)
After lunch the guys promised they'd help look for the baton I dropped on the runway
"To some the sky is the limit. To others it is home" anon.
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein
After a couple of days of R&R (for some of the crew) we're off to Ballalae AGGE
"To some the sky is the limit. To others it is home" anon.
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein
Arrived at AGGE
Turning final, port engine went TU and barely made it in above stall speed.
Crew is investigating
"To some the sky is the limit. To others it is home" anon.
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein
Previously noted "issue" was a broken throttle linkage. Thanks to the generous contribution of a set of guitar strings from one of the journalists we should be strumming a sweet tune on the next leg to AGGM (Munda)
"To some the sky is the limit. To others it is home" anon.
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein
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