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Are you a REAL pilot?

Postby D-ECHO » Sat May 09, 2015 5:25 pm

This doesn't mean whether you are a pilot in real life! It means whether you have the skills to be a really good pilot!
The first challenge: Land at one of the airports in Papua Neuguinea, which are some of the most dangerous airports in the world!
Airports:
WA0K
WABK
WAJB
...more coming...
Aircraft:
Every aircraft that...
...has MORE than 4 seats (including pilot)
...isn't a VTOL aircraft/helicopter
How to submit:
Submit a video, one/many screenshots and/or the route flown on mpserver12.flightgear.org
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Re: Are you a REAL pilot?

Postby MountainFlyerN22 » Thu May 28, 2015 12:20 am

You sure they're in Papua Neuguinea ?
I can't seem to find airports of that code in Papua Neuguinea, most seem to be in Indonesia.
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Re: Are you a REAL pilot?

Postby wkitty42 » Thu May 28, 2015 4:36 am

that's kinda what i seemed to have found, too... plus i don't do MP so there's no way i'm gonna be recorded on some server some where...
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"Dunno. It's frightened of heights, I guess."
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Re: Are you a REAL pilot?

Postby Kabuki » Thu May 28, 2015 7:41 pm

The island of New Guinea is shared by two countries, and has lots and lots of airstrips, more on the west side of the island (Irian Jaya AKA West Irian) than on the east (Papua New Guinea).

It also has some high mountains, and very few navaids. It's twotter country.
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Re: Are you a REAL pilot?

Postby D-ECHO » Sat Jun 20, 2015 5:39 pm

Hey, yeah sorry, was in Indonesia ;)
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Re: Are you a REAL pilot?

Postby Cata » Sun Jun 21, 2015 12:55 pm

I recently flied in Papua and found several airstrips with almost impossible approaches. Most of the airstrips there are not included in skyvector database or fg mpservers.
I don't have video or screen for this flight, only traker link, but I'll have for the next ones. The airstrip I visited is Yigi Airstrip, ICAO code WT74 in fg.
http://mpserver12.flightgear.org/tracke ... ht/368515/
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Re: Are you a REAL pilot?

Postby TheEagle » Fri Dec 03, 2021 11:58 pm

Phew, took me 6 tries to get a halfway decent landing at WT74 !


The trick was to stall the plane onto the runway. :mrgreen: Luckily my Cessna 210 can take a lot of force yet
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Re: Are you a REAL pilot?

Postby wlbragg » Sat Dec 04, 2021 1:10 am

Can you make the video public?
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Re: Are you a REAL pilot?

Postby TheEagle » Sat Dec 04, 2021 11:09 am

there you go - should work now. One had to join their "Partner program" first. :roll:
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