Spitfire, Harvard and Tiger Moth flying
Everyone wants to fly a Spitfire right? And I bet, like me, you thought you’d have to know someone who knew someone that had one, with two seats, and was willing to let you go for a ride? Well, as...
Category: Occasions
The move to Nabire
After one and a half years being mainly based out of Timika, the time has come for me to move to our Nabire base. Although I’ve spent the odd few weeks there over the last eighteen months, this is the...
Loop magazine article
A belated happy new year to all my readers and I hope you had an enjoyable Christmas too. As you might have gathered from the lack of blogging recently, I’ve been away from flying over the holiday period. During that...
Four years in Indonesia – Part 2
So, after two years on the C208, the timing was just right for me to make the change to the Pilatus PC-6 Turbo Porter. I’d gotten very comfortable flying the C208 but was more than ready for a change both...
Four years in Indonesia – Part 1
Hard to believe but it’s been four years since I booked that one way ticket from the UK to Indonesia to start my new life as a commercial pilot. A lot’s happened in those four years, so I thought I’d...
1000 hours flying the Pilatus Porter
Well that came up without me realising! It wasn’t until I was catching up on my logbook that I realised I’ve now passed 1000 hours flying the Porter. So to mark the occasion here’s a list of the highlights and...
