Back to work, sort of
Things have been rather quite on the flying front these last few weeks, mainly due to me being back in the UK on holiday. However… Read More »Back to work, sort of
Matt Dearden is a commercial pilot and author who went from computer geek to bush pilot during a seven year adventure flying out in the jungles and mountains of Indonesia.
Things have been rather quite on the flying front these last few weeks, mainly due to me being back in the UK on holiday. However… Read More »Back to work, sort of
I knew something was a little odder than usual, as I shut the engine off, when one of the local villagers in Mapnduma was dancing… Read More »When natives go wild
Now that I’m back flying out of our Timika base in the depths of the Papuan winter, I’ve finally gotten to experience how the weather… Read More »Winter in Papua
At 73 seconds long, this flight from deep inside Papua, Indonesia has to be amongst the shortest in the world. Kegata and Apowo villages are… Read More »Kegata to Apowo – World’s shortest commercial flight?
It’s been yet another wet week out here in the mountains of Papua with some places getting more than their fair share of water. Enarotaili… Read More »Boats on the runway!
Like many an Englishman, I’m rather partial to a cup of tea but if I’m honest, coffee beats it in the battle for my favourite… Read More »Papua’s “Blue Mountain Coffee”