Coffee's Around the World Tour

[theflyingtaff]

Great shots!

Looking forward to the next leg.

James

[Naki]

Thanks!

Leg 11 - AGGN (Gizo Island) to AYBK (Buka, Papua New Guinea)

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uka Island is the second largest island in the Papua New Guinean province of Bougainville.[/quote]

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[kiwibarguy]

Great Shots, keep it up. I must get back into my world tour as well, keep it up!!!. Is that default landclass or have you added in something?

[ZKIWI]

Awesome screen shots.

How often are you flying? I am currently doing around the world flight also in a Piper Navajo. I'm parked up in Chittagong Bangladesh at the moment and trying to get another leg in soon. Do you fly your legs online? If so it would be good to RV somewhere if our legs are close enough together. Maybe even fly an online leg at the same time. I'm flying with the Regn ZK-TAC

[NZCoffee]

QUOTE (kiwibarguy @ Jun 13 2008, 04:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Great Shots, keep it up. I must get back into my world tour as well, keep it up!!!. Is that default landclass or have you added in something?

The landclass is default. I use Active Sky, and Active Graphics. I downloaded replacement afcads for the Papua New Guinea airports from AVSim, and got replacement mesh from http://simviation.com/fsx_terrainmesh.htm

QUOTE (ZKIWI @ Jun 14 2008, 10:18 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Awesome screen shots.

How often are you flying? I am currently doing around the world flight also in a Piper Navajo. I'm parked up in Chittagong Bangladesh at the moment and trying to get another leg in soon. Do you fly your legs online? If so it would be good to RV somewhere if our legs are close enough together. Maybe even fly an online leg at the same time. I'm flying with the Regn ZK-TAC

At the moment, I'm flying for the fun of it, so if I don't fly for a couple of weeks, I don't get hung up about it. I fly offline because I enjoy the AI that WoAI provides

[NZCoffee]

Leg 12 Buka - Papua New Guinea (AYBK) to Open Bay - Papua New Guinea (OBY)



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[Alex]

Nice to see you still slogging away at it Coffee.

Alex

[NZCoffee]

Thanks Alex

Leg 13 - Open Bay Papua New Guinea (OBY) to Kandrian Papua New Guinea (KDR)



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[spongebob206]

Nice shots thanks.

I've been flying the baron a lot lately.
What a beautiful aircraft.


look forward to the next leg

[Naki]

Leg 14 - Kandrian Papua New Guinea (KDR) to Port Moresby Papua New Guinea (AYPY)

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Port Moresby (pronounced /ˌpɔrt ˈmɔrzbi/), or Pot Mosbi in Tok Pisin, population 255,000 (2000), is the capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea. The city is located on the shores of the Gulf of Papua, on the southeastern coast of the island of New Guinea.[/quote]

I decide to take an evening flight to spend the night in Port Moresby, rather than trying to sleep in my cockpit for the night.

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09: Powered down. Time to find a bed for the night

Last edited by NZCoffee on Tue Jul 15, 2008 1:40 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[Daniel]

Looks lice a nice tour so far Nice shots bye the way.
If I have a bit of time I might have to look at planning my own tour. (might stick to NZ though and do an NZ tour.)

[Naki]

Leg 15 Port Moresby Papua New Guinea (AYBY) to Tapini Papua New Guinea (TPI)

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Hidden in the secretive mountain highlands of PNG this sparkling jewel will absolutely enthrall you!... Expect a 3002ft grass runway on an elevation of 3151ft. Enjoy. - http://www.simtours.net/ddda.php?approach=407[/quote]

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[Anthony]

Nice shots Coffee.
Looks like you're having a good time on your tour

[jastheace]

another great one to watch, is that archerfield you will be coming into??? make sure you give me a yell for your fuel if yu are in

[NZCoffee]

Leg 16 and 17, Tapini to Menyama to Mount Hagen


Continuing through the Papua New Guinea mountains. Just some highlights.

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[NZCoffee]

Leg 18 - Mount Hagen to Kandep



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Looking at my GPS I seem to be nearly on top of the airfield, but it's nowhere to be seen. As I top the crest of a hill, the airstrip reveals itself nestled on the other side of the hill. This looks like it's going to be a doozy to land at. Instead of the usual static screenshots, please enjoy a video replay of this very ... errr... creative landing

Please watch in high quality, the standard quality version is very low-fi

Enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKdgBNaTtOY

[Naki]

Nice pics there NZ Coffee - some of the scenery you are flying over looks photo real - some interesting airports (an approaches!) as well.

[cowpatz]

Creative indeed As soon as the port wingtip is reattached I guess you are off

[NZCoffee]

Leg 19 - Kandep to Telefomin

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Telefomin is a station town on the border of Sandaun and Western Provinces in Papua New Guinea. The town started during the Second World War after Mick Leahy was assigned to engineer an air-strip in 1944 for the United States for use against the Imperial Japanese Army forces based in New Guinea.[/quote]

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[NZCoffee]

Leg 20 Telefomin Papua New Guinea to Jayapura, Indonesia



Rather than spend the night in my cockpit, I decide to make the hop over to Jayapura, a city over the Papua New Guinea / Indonesian border:

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Depending on the range of my tanks, my next trip may be over to the Philippines!