DEWI_LINGGASARI: "Impressive...." --Pioneering Airplane Flights Timika

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

"Impressive...." --Pioneering Airplane Flights Timika - Ewer ...

Pilatus Aircraft

Monday, July 25, 2016

Originally I was going to wait Tatamalau ship will dock at Pier Pomako, Timika tomorrow, Tuesday, July 26, 2016 to go to the New Pier Agats, Asmat, returned to duty after a long holiday. However, Pilatus Aircraft propeller, with a capacity of eight passengers including the pilot preparing to fly to the Pioneer Airport Ewer, Asmat District in order to service local task. I got a call, are willing to go now, before they could rest in Timika Golden Hotel? Sure I'm ready, air travel more quickly and easily than should take an hour's drive from the hotel to the pier and then a 10 hour cruise, arrive at the destination on a dark night.

Feeling tense few minutes before the flight was giddy, human safety will be in the hands of the pilot, in the belly of the iron bird, hovering around 40 minutes to reach the airport runway pioneer, Ewer. However, God's power over human destiny and salvation. In 22 years when selecting served in Papua, I and all the people who settled in the region is very dependent on the aviation pioneer, both types of Cessna, Pilatus or the Twin Otter in the context of air mobility.

However, feeling giddy amazement changed slowly faded, when slowly Pilatus Aircraft roared, moving surely towards the airport runways Kilangin Moses, Timika. Flight roar stronger then the iron bird rose airs, runway lagged behind and farther away. Timika Town looked as crowded residential concentration littered with tin roofs of different colors, instant, and then disappeared in the distance. The view has been transformed and is toxic waste vast land beyond the urban planning that comes from the giant project PT. Freeport Indonesia. Sources of toxic waste was flowing like tributaries that the growing and geared toward offshore.

The aircraft continued to roar, this time I was the only passenger with a pilot foreign nationality. At a moment Pilatus pilot turned towards the back, thumbs-up, I reply with a nod as he continues to capture the scene memorable. Thus forest green infinite horizon stretches, the river snaking as serpents, moving from upstream towards the estuary, very soft white cloud lumpy hovering altitude, wind, heading either. The longer the clouds getting thicker, gleamed in the warm sunshine, a few seconds the plane was caught in a white fog, but the weather was bright and friendly. Air under clouds appear as white expanse of very thick and wide as if he does not want to in the end, in the sky as blue as sapphires. Giddy flavor no longer trace.

Slowly pull the white clouds, vast forests and rivers winding-Sangai beautiful back appears as an impressive panorama. Clouds back looked as white and tender wadding strands of silk fabric bandages. The distance to the airport runway Ewer as air gateway Asmat getting closer. When the hum of the engine decreases, the vast forest green turns into the sky the limit, and a faint blue. Best play, positioning himself just for landing on a runway, the trees looked closer, Kampong settlement Ewer and Sau glimpsed through the glass window. When the wheels touched the runway feels shocks surprisingly, the best kept going towards the end of the journey, the movement was so rapid and worrisome. On two sides of the glass window, the trees seemed to go well run, it always stops sesunggunnya plants.

When the plane finally play then stop, this speedy flight to the destination safely. "Thank you, see you again," I spend waved to the pilot, he also waved in a friendly way.