A nice little airport in Papua Indonesia, on flightsim.to

 

 

https://flightsim.to/file/27312/wavg-karubaga-airport

<cough cough> and Porter pilots... 

😉

26 minutes ago, Car147 said:

A nice little airport in Papua Indonesia, on flightsim.to

https://flightsim.to/file/27312/wavg-karubaga-airport

Nice find!  I will download that later.

@Dominique_K  True!  With a decent head wind, the Porter would probably be airborne before it left the piano keys - the first set I mean obviously! 

I did a couple of flights from and to. A lovely airfield with an easy to rectify flaw, tall trees just before the 17 threshold (the landing end) which make landing very difficult even with the Porter. They don't exist in the real world. Bijan's trees ?

As for leaving on the piano key.... hmmm I wouldn't advise it 😄 !

Edited January 31, 20224 yr by Dominique_K

Thank you for that. Downloaded along with all the other files recommended.

1 hour ago, Dominique_K said:

<cough cough> and Porter pilots... 

😉

Of course, how did i miss the Porter. 😀

Thanks for this. Is there a list somewhere of other airports in the area.  After watching the YouTube videos of the Kodiak in Papua New Guinea, I would really like to do some flying there but have no idea which airports or grass strips to use.  I am not even sure if any of the grass strips in the videos appear in MSFS.

Edited January 31, 20224 yr by MarkW

3 minutes ago, MarkW said:

Thanks for this. Is there a list somewhere of other airports in the area.  After watching the YouTube videos of the Kodiak in Papua New Guinea, I would really like to do some flying there but have no idea which airports or grass strips to use.  I am not even sure if any of the grass strips in the videos appear in MSFS.

Just do a search on airports in PNG on Google. I use Skyvector to locate the airports. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airports_in_Papua_New_Guinea

Edited January 31, 20224 yr by Bobsk8

1 hour ago, Dominique_K said:

I did a couple of flights from and to. A lovely airfield with an easy to rectify flaw, tall trees just before the 17 threshold (the landing end) which make landing very difficult even with the Porter. They don't exist in the real world. Bijan's trees ?

Strange about the trees.  They don't seem to show in the authors pictures, so I wonder if it is a tree pack causing it. 
I will try with and without Bijan's trees later, on my new fast loading (hopefully) computer! 

22 minutes ago, bobcat999 said:

 on my new fast loading (hopefully) computer! 

happy ?

36 minutes ago, bobcat999 said:

 . 
I will try with and without Bijan's trees later 

Bijan's trees are indeed the cause of it, just checked it.

54 minutes ago, MarkW said:

Thanks for this. Is there a list somewhere of other airports in the area.  After watching the YouTube videos of the Kodiak in Papua New Guinea, I would really like to do some flying there but have no idea which airports or grass strips to use.  I am not even sure if any of the grass strips in the videos appear in MSFS.

You can also check them in Little Nav map.

52 minutes ago, MarkW said:

Thanks for this. Is there a list somewhere of other airports in the area.  After watching the YouTube videos of the Kodiak in Papua New Guinea, I would really like to do some flying there but have no idea which airports or grass strips to use.  I am not even sure if any of the grass strips in the videos appear in MSFS.

It's incredible. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of grass jungle strips natively in MSFS.  Most of the ones MBP flies to are just in the sim. Flightsim.to has some handcrafted strips as well.  If you load up little navmap, you'll be astounded at the number of strips in the sim.  Short, sloping, one way strips on the side of mountains... it's bush flying paradise. 

Check out Ononge (ONB) if you want to see something fun... it's a dirt scar on the spine of a ridge, with a turn halfway up.  😉

57 minutes ago, MarkW said:

Thanks for this. Is there a list somewhere of other airports in the area.  After watching the YouTube videos of the Kodiak in Papua New Guinea, I would really like to do some flying there but have no idea which airports or grass strips to use.  I am not even sure if any of the grass strips in the videos appear in MSFS.

MSFS does a great job with the Papuas. The sim World map will show you scores of dirt and grass  strips all over West Papua and PNG and some paved runway airports too. 

 

1 hour ago, MarkW said:

Is there a list somewhere of other airports in the area.

You can use the world map over at flightsim.to to check for addon sceneries in Papua, that is how I got my 10-15 small airstrips together for my Kodiak flying over there. In the world map of MSFS, addon airports are also indicated specifically, so flightplanning should work easily. What I still did not get is how I can visually indicate addon airports in LNM, so it is always a little hassle to do my flightplanning in LNM without having the list of PNG addons ready somewhere. So for LNM, I would also like to hear some tipps.