Christmas & The start of flying
Sorry it has taken so long to get this posted. Here is what we have been up to the last month......
We really enjoyed Christmas this year even though it was quite diffrent than we have ever experinced before. This is Paula & The Kids Christmas Day.
The Kids really enjoyed their gifts that were sent along from Grandpas & Grandmas.
Kayla was not too big a fan of the ocean at first, but by the end of our time there she was having a great time paddling aroud on her own without mom or dad's help.
One afternoon we took a little excursion to a little wild life reserve just up the road from Madang. In this cave was a sulfer water spring, the smell reminded me instantly of the cave & basin at Banff. In this water were little turtles and bigger eels that would come right up and eat out of your hand.
Then it was finally time to start flying.
My flight training will be based here in Goroka. It seemed strange to see an airport with parallel ruways here in PNG. You can land either runway 35 right or 35 left. Even though this airport is big enough to have parallel runways it is still a one way airstrip, you always land runway 35 and take off in the oposite direction runway 17 once you cross the road on short final you are committed to land. Because of the terrain on the far end of the runway you could not safely abort the landing if you didn't like the way it was going.
Here is the MAF base at Goroka. There is one twin otter based here and one TU206 MFM the plane that I am flying.
This is picture and the two below are taken at a place called Wananera about 20 minutes south of Goroka.
It is hard to tell from this picture, but this is a fairly steep airstrip (about 10% average). The parking area on the right is almost level.
We have been into Wananera a few times in the last week. We have been able to transport medical supplies into the clinic there, and take out a number of passengers including a guy with a pretty badly broken leg.
That's all for now. I'll try to do a better job of keeping you up to date in the future, as I spend more and more time flying.
We really enjoyed Christmas this year even though it was quite diffrent than we have ever experinced before. This is Paula & The Kids Christmas Day.
The Kids really enjoyed their gifts that were sent along from Grandpas & Grandmas.
Kayla was not too big a fan of the ocean at first, but by the end of our time there she was having a great time paddling aroud on her own without mom or dad's help.
One afternoon we took a little excursion to a little wild life reserve just up the road from Madang. In this cave was a sulfer water spring, the smell reminded me instantly of the cave & basin at Banff. In this water were little turtles and bigger eels that would come right up and eat out of your hand.
Then it was finally time to start flying.
My flight training will be based here in Goroka. It seemed strange to see an airport with parallel ruways here in PNG. You can land either runway 35 right or 35 left. Even though this airport is big enough to have parallel runways it is still a one way airstrip, you always land runway 35 and take off in the oposite direction runway 17 once you cross the road on short final you are committed to land. Because of the terrain on the far end of the runway you could not safely abort the landing if you didn't like the way it was going.
Here is the MAF base at Goroka. There is one twin otter based here and one TU206 MFM the plane that I am flying.
This is picture and the two below are taken at a place called Wananera about 20 minutes south of Goroka.
It is hard to tell from this picture, but this is a fairly steep airstrip (about 10% average). The parking area on the right is almost level.
We have been into Wananera a few times in the last week. We have been able to transport medical supplies into the clinic there, and take out a number of passengers including a guy with a pretty badly broken leg.
That's all for now. I'll try to do a better job of keeping you up to date in the future, as I spend more and more time flying.
posted by Nick & Paula at 5:45 PM
1 Comments:
Blessings and Greetings from Calgary!
Karen passed on the blog info. to me and I'm so glad. It's great to get these updates and see how you are doing and see where you are!
I hear Paula is not well, and want you to be assured that we are praying for her and her quick return to health!
Keep on keeping on!
Love,
Joanne
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