Madang Airport (AYMD) - Rabaul Airport (AYTK)

[hasegawa]

Pacific Aerospace PAC P-750 XSTOL
Who can relate to "Friedrich-Wilhelms-Hafen" in the imperial South Seas colony of German New Guinea? Or with the Japanese naval base Rabaul in WWII? Today the Papua New Guinea.(MSFS) is "3 hours on the road" and happy to have arrived on time at an unknown airport with an unknown airplane in the twilight. There are still a few things to look at about this aircraft. 3 pages "manual" are a bit tight. Incidentally, the destination airport is no longer the airport conquered and used by the Japanese in 1942, as it was completely destroyed when the Tavurvur volcano erupted in 1994.
I just can't get the autopilot to work on the machine. Yes, I turned on the main switch, which is somewhat hidden, and I also found the fuse for the autopilot. So all I could get out of this thing was the nice "rdy" and nothing else. I'm at a loss.


















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[chopper_nut]

Never got to Madang but I spent more than a year operating out of Tokua. The old Japanese and Rabaul airport is still recognizable despite being covered in ash. There is a Ki43 and a twin engined Japanese aeroplane (the designation escapes me) there as well as a 40mm anti aircraft mount. The museum just down the road has a lot of very interesting aeroplane bits in it.