Hello guys, I have decided to do some VFR flying within PNG with Kodiak. For other VFR flights i use Skydemon but just realized its not available withing PNG. is there something similar available for that area? If not what would be best place to make routes which i can have on iPad or within sim and also get some charts for IFR recoveries? Thanks in advance

Hi Luka, I'm not familiar with Skydemon however I have done a lot of flying in PNG both in the sim & in real life as a passenger many years ago when the DC3 was the workhorse in the region.

I just use LittleNavmap to plan my flights & then export to MSFS which allows you to load the flight into the sim & will appear in the G1000.

There are very few navaids in PNG so most IFR approaches would be done with LNAV/VNAV but I'm not sure how many are in the G1000 database & if you fly in to some of the many mountain strips you will have to do them manually. The larger airports such as Mt Hagen, Madang etc do have these.

If you use real weather it's best to fly in the mornings if possible as cloud build up is quite common during the afternoons making VFR flight somewhat tricky at times. When I lived up there during the sixties & seventies flying was usually scheduled for early morning departures to beat the weather & it was quite common to look out the window of the aircraft & watch the scenery go by level with you as the aircraft flew up & down the valleys to get to your destination.

Flightsim.to have many enhanced strips to download if you are interested.

Great place to fly particularly if you have a set of VR goggles!

Edited November 13, 20232 yr by Rossco

Here is a mod that you might like:

https://flightsim.to/file/37885/mega-mod-for-png-and-western-new-guinea

Worth making note of the changes made by World Update 13, and how to get round them. Wantok has been a bit of a specialist in PNG over the years, so it's a mod that's well worth looking at.

Also, look out for MountainAir's mods - he's done loads of PNG airfields, all using stock library items.