Some more picts

Looks like internet works a bit better than usual tonight, so I'll add the latest pictures I took today !
Two of these pictures below were taken at some place named Batom (the pictures with all these people around the aircraft), quite remote but not in the mountains this time, easy strip about 700m long on flat land : piece of cake ;) I would have considered this a challenging strip a few months ago probably ... Hahaha ... not any more !
The other 2 pictures are : One from our base's apron in Jayapura-Sentani airport, the other from a mountain strip named Sinak.
The people over there are typical Papuans, Tribal look, kids running around the aircraft, so excited about all that food being dropped the the "bird made out of steel" driven by the white people ^^
That is amazing how for a few minutes 2 worlds completely different coexist on that small runway : state of the art technology and civilization versus people from the bush living so simply !
I love that feeling of adventure, feeling a bit privileged to be able to go to these places that so few people go to, in the middle of the jungle, and in the same day fly back to base with all the comfort we like. I love my job !

Sorry to all the people that used to follow this blog, I received complaints from several friends that my blog is rotting, which is actually true...
So My last post was in may, at that time I was at my first base after the training : Medan(Sumatra).
Since then, I've been based successively in Balikpapan(Borneo), Jakarta(Java), Nabire(Papua) and Jayapura(Papua) where I am right now, with hyper slow internet so I hope I can post this :)
To Make things short, I've been flying now over most of Indonesia, accumulating more than 300 hours on the Caravan which I have to say is a real good airplane !
Papua where I'm flying now is very interesting. I love it here ! It is considered by many as beeing the "most challenging bush flying in the world" and it is not that far from the truth ! I have to deal with high altitude, short gravel/dirt strips, 10+% upslope, one way in, no go around, tropical hot air and tropical thunderstorms and weather, nasty windshears and a few 200liters fuel barrels in the back to make things funnier in case of a forced landing :) Well, might be a bit scary at first, but guess what ? I LOVE IT !!!!
Papua people also look a bit more uncivilized, I mean tribal kinda type, which make the Papuan experience even more looking like an adventure. This is great.

I post some pictures of Papua here, sorry for all the sceneries of Indo you didnt get to see because I didnt post... At least you'll see the most interesting part so far : Papua !