SrGalahad's Speedy SpamCan

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Departing Malita (RP17) for WAMH

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Arrived at WAHM

Journalists interviewing a number of terrified locals who were seen hiding in the surrounding forest.

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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

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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...

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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

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On the ground at WABB.

Looks like a nice spot for dinner. Maybe the magazine boys will think to have showers too...

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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

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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.

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Hayfield to Gusap (GSP) following roads, ruts and rivers. Who needs a navigator?

[salt_air]

Good Luck buddy!

[srgalahad]

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)

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Departing Gusap for Jacquinot Bay (JCB)

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Safely arrived at JCB.

[PRB]

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.

[Moses03]

Hmm, not sure what a B-26 is. Maybe a screenshot would clear that up...

[srgalahad]

since you asked...

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Departing JCB (Jacquinot Bay) for AYTK (Tokua -Rabaul)

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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!

[srgalahad]

Continuing with FSrealWX lite...

Rabaul to MKO (Malekolon)
- hope that's not some harbinger of gastro-intestinal distress-

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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.

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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

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Landed at Baku (AYBK)

After lunch the guys promised they'd help look for the baton I dropped on the runway

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After a couple of days of R&R (for some of the crew) we're off to Ballalae AGGE

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Arrived at AGGE
Turning final, port engine went TU and barely made it in above stall speed.
Crew is investigating

[srgalahad]

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)