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Date Posted: 15:57:02 03/14/02 Thu
Author: Buffy's vampire
Subject: To me Kundiawa has queerest airport
In reply to: Ralph Hamilton 's message, "Re: PNG is not Moresby or is that Moresby is not PNG?" on 15:30:16 03/14/02 Thu

>Tru wantok,
> Pot Mosbi, em i bin nambawan nogut ples,
>long PNG insait. I hear they have finally cleaned the
>Airport up at last, though.
>
> I always recommend to everyone, that you have a
>connecting flight out of Mosbi immediately, or at the
>latest the next morning. Lae and Mosbi, are two places
>to stay out of. The rest of the country is paradise.
>
> I think the funniest major Airport, is Goroka. The
>runway goes uphill. Split-level with the hump in the
>middle. Light aircraft land, vanish, then have to put
>on power to climb the hump, to get to the terminal.
>The F28s get airborne off the hump. It is one of the
>few airstrips where you can gain altitude, whilst
>still descending. Relative to the ground, that is.
>
> Yu kisim gutpela wokabaut. Dringim tuapela oa tripela
>kolpela SP Export lo me.
>
> I'm simply dying to get back there......Ralph.

Good one, Ralph. Goroka is certainly a great place to land, but for me Kundiawa has one of the world's most perilous airports... if you miss, you're in for one hellava trip downhill.

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