To musi byt taky letiste...
I should have taken some pictures of Malemba Nkulu, but I was basically landing on a dirt road with 3 meter high grass on each side within the wingspan of the Caravan. I find it really hard to judge the height of the grass until it is almost too late on landing. In this particular case, I was about to point the nose up and go around, but then the wheels touched and as I looked left and right, I saw grass just barely reaching up to the underside of the Caravan's wings. There is one guy with a machete who is supposed to chop the grass on the sides of the runway, but I don't see how he could keep up. Does anyone want to send a weed-wacker to Malemba Nkulu? :-)
To musi byt taky letiste...
I should have taken some pictures of Malemba Nkulu, but I was basically landing on a dirt road with 3 meter high grass on each side within the wingspan of the Caravan. I find it really hard to judge the height of the grass until it is almost too late on landing. In this particular case, I was about to point the nose up and go around, but then the wheels touched and as I looked left and right, I saw grass just barely reaching up to the underside of the Caravan's wings. There is one guy with a machete who is supposed to chop the grass on the sides of the runway, but I don't see how he could keep up. Does anyone want to send a weed-wacker to Malemba Nkulu? :-)