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BinouZe.

Friday, September 17, 2010

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 !






2 comments:

Golfcharlie232 said...

Toujours un plaisir de te lire et suivre tes aventures !
On a du mal a imaginer, derriere notre PC, bien installé dans une Europe relativement civilisée, de ce a quoi peut ressembler l'aviation a l'autre bout du monde.
Comment se passe l' "intégration" en temps qu'étranger blanc ?
Bons vols

BinouZe said...

Merci.
L'aviation ici est a mon avis a mi-chemin entre le n'importe quoi africain et les normes JAA/FAA... On trouve un peu de tout, des compagnies poubelles et d'autres beaucoup plus serieuses...
Le job de pilote reste assez similaire meme a l'autre bout du monde.
Papua est un environnement de vol assez particulier qui reunit meteo tropicale, pistes courtes et sommaires et montagnes elevees, un sacre challenge! Beaucoup de pilote blancs pour piloter les pilatus porter et caravans !
L'integration ne pose aucun probleme dans notre compagnie, nous sommes tous des "blancs" expats...
Voler ici est vraiment genial, exit les longues finales ILS et 3km de piste, ici on pilote vraiment et je n'aurai pas pu trouver meilleur debut de carriere, la ligne en 320 ou autre jet en europe me parait bien fade maintenant, j'ai un peur peur de m'ennuyer en embrassant une carriere de ligne classique...