Talair Britten Norman "Islander"

[hasegawa]

The friendly news are, that Graham Michaels PNG-Scenery

http://secure.simmarket.com/pis-raw-grit-p...(de_3925).phtml

and the new ORBX-Scenedry around Port Moresby and Kokoda are compatible. The only thing you must do is, Graham´s scenery must in the scenery library of your FSX above the ORBX-Scenery, but below the "Library-Scenery from ORBX...

I have flown a leg from Finschhafen to Kokoda and it works perfect. The only trhing, it was an endloss ride because of the weather-conditions with "speed" around 80 kts!





Talair "Islander" in Finschhafen... Yes, the scenery may today below the standarts, but it was Mr. Michaels first commercial scenery years ago and it has something, some scenerys from toda didn´t ... athmosphere.



IU like this little bird, because it is a good representation from flight1 ... and made years ago. It is a good aircraft. I have more fun with those kind of aircraft... yes I have the new airbus from Aerosoft and the IFLY 737NG and other Big Jets to. But, at the moment I have not enough time to fly them under circumstances, that are real. This is a good aircraft to fly an hour after work only for fun, but realistic enough for me.



We reaching Kokoda.



Sometimes flying in PNG with the Twin Otter is better, because you have more power available and not less in higher altitude.

[Ian Warren]

Looking dang fine , I was doing a bitta work for my brother years ago for a customer - one regularly went to PNG teaching work, in Papua New Guinea they still have cannibals and they really do live in the trees, there are 853 different languages, he said not dialect , but actual languages - quite amazing chap, even had a tribes blow gun and darts ... not a place for me - not enough techno tho stopped in twos spots - more for the plane ride in during day .

[Splitpin]

Scenery looks great , #3 looks good .

[hasegawa]

Parts of PNG was for a couple of years german colony and you can find some names on charts like Bismarck Range... here in Germany this is almost forgotten and not part of teaching history... For me the conditions in PNG are not good. The climate of PNG is outside my "working range".

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (hasegawa @ Oct 20 2014,8:47 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Parts of PNG was for a couple of years german colony and you can find some names on charts like Bismarck Range... here in Germany this is almost forgotten and not part of teaching history... For me the conditions in PNG are not good. The climate of PNG is outside my "working range".

In saying that there is one epic sea battle in this region, Should have been a movie made about it and surprised no one has done it based in WWI , the German light armored cruiser SMS Emden, Captain by Karl von Muller, sneaking into a British base after making a makeshift funnel ... hell of a story and lasted for months attacking ANZAC convoys and eventually after shot to pieces by the HMAS Sydney which itself was damaged badly - Captain Muller then raced the Emen onto Cocos North Kealing Island and beached the battered hulk to save his crew, amazing real life story from 100 years ago.

[Timmy74]

I lived there for a few years as a kid and remember the Talair Islanders very well. I still remember when Cessna where trying to sell the (then brand new) C208 to the PNGDF as the C-47 replacement. They let my father pilot one and we flew to a couple of remote bush strips to try it out. The PNGDF went with IAI Arava in the end because one of the requirements was that the aircarft had to carry a small Jeep/Suzuki Sierra that the PNG Police were using at the time. They did a lot of police car shuffling!!

I loved PNG and regard my time there as some of the best times of my life. I would not go back today though. Very sad.

Great shots hasegawa!

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Timmy74 @ Oct 20 2014,9:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

The PNGDF went with IAI Arava in the end because one of the requirements was that the aircarft had to carry a small Jeep/Suzuki Sierra that the PNG Police were using at the time.

I saw one of those IAI Avava's at the Bi-centennial Australian Airshow in 1988, that explains it then, I do have a great photo off it somewhere here.

[Timmy74]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Oct 21 2014,6:55 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I saw one of those IAI Avava's at the Bi-centennial Australian Airshow in 1988, that explains it then, I do have a great photo off it somewhere here.

Did you like the Bi-centennial air show Ian? For me, its still the best air show Australia has hosted.
I was living on the base at that time and was lucky to see all the aircraft come and go over the weeks before and after the week of the airshow.

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Timmy74 @ Oct 21 2014,10:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Did you like the Bi-centennial air show Ian? For me, its still the best air show Australia has hosted.
I was living on the base at that time and was lucky to see all the aircraft come and go over the weeks before and after the week of the airshow.

YIP , been to many Avalon's and other .. but yeah .. I still go on about the AN-124 doing the wing over from runway level from only 6ft off the tarmac then going ballistic and rolling on its back - from my vantage point I have photos showing the undercarridge showing shadows on the bottom off the fuselage ... I heard 150,000 people say Farrrrr................out - I then panned out with the video and the 59 year old pilot had the aircraft a wingspan away from the ground in a sweeping turn ...