Indonesia Tour 2

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Admiring the aquarium in the Dubai Mall during a stop-over in the UAE on the way to Jakarta
( see Post Sat16Aug14 )

Dubai Mall - The Waterfall

Gifts from Scotland for Clan MacNabire
Asian One Air ground crew with bagpipes and Jimmy hats

Nabire - Engineer Marsel striking a Highland Pose as he marshals us on to the stand

Nabire ground crew

Gifts from Scotland - our Engineers Marsel, Jefri and Meli

Jimmy Bagpipes - sound ON if you dare

Nabire - abandoned aircraft being reclaimed by the jungle

Nabire - apron light losing its battle with the jungle

The often-mentioned "Freeway" - the main route through the western Maoke Mountain range.

By May 2025 I hope to have a full description and explanation

Dragonfly

Cruising the Freeway at altitude 9500 ft 2900 m enroute to Mulia,
surrounded by 13000 ft 3900 m terrain

Poor pic...but it gives an idea of scale :
MAF Quest Kodiak manoeuvring below into Mokndoma airstrip
GoogleMaps MAF Video YouTube

Descending into Mulia - giving the Gunung Mondu a wide berth to avoid getting shot at from this Independence movement stronghold GoogleMaps

Unloading 1200 kg of frozen chickens in Mulia
GoogleMaps

Westbound heading back to Nabire in a cloudy Freeway at 10500 ft 3200 m - Lake Paniai and Gunung Deiyei in the distance

In the soft ground beside the airstrip in Bilogai after blowing a tyre during landing. Happily no injuries nor real damage.
( for the record ...I was not PF )

Papua airstrips are rough on tyres but this was aggravated by a bad inner tube
which had been shipped to us from Jakarta already fitted to a new wheel.
The wheel, tube and tyre were packaged as factory-new with false documentation.
The wheel and tyre (the visible bits) were fine but the inner tube was badly worn and patched in several places.
After this all components we received were disassembled and checked

Even the Beast of Bilogai walked off in disgust

Unloading the cargo

Although we blocked the airstrip for most of the day, our friends from AMA were able to bring in spares, tools and engineers using their STOL PC6 Porter