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… Read More »Four years in Indonesia – Part 2
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.
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… Read More »Four years in Indonesia – Part 2
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… Read More »Four years in Indonesia – Part 1
As time marches on, the airstrips and villages of Papua are ever more being slowly modernised. It is an inevitable certainty that with more and… Read More »Lots of work in progress
Medicine delivery flight in Papua from Matt Dearden on Vimeo. Here’s another typically short flight we do out here in Papua, delivering medicine from the… Read More »Medicine delivery flight in Papua
Sitting on Papua’s high plateau at 8700ft, Agadugume is one of the highest airstrips on the New Guinea island. At that sort of altitude, even… Read More »Agadugume
So, there you are flying along enjoying the view of the mountains of Papua, less than 10 minutes from your remote village destination of Beoga,… Read More »Double GPS system failure