“Great aircraft, I’m told…”
I flew into the interior of Nepal near Everest on one. A little village named Phuplu was out destination. We flew through a pass and the pilot went full flaps and pointed the nose straight down towards a postage stamp piece of grass. I’m a pilot but my butt was so tight................
Hahah…the old “… If you stuck a lump of coal up my rear end, it would come out a diamond…”!
I love watching the YouTube aviation videos that show pilots (like the ones down in Papua New Guinea), who fly into really odd situated airfields that are built in box canyons, and things like that.
Then when they pick up their passengers, they’re loading goats, and just about anything else on the plane! Talk about a challenging, carry-on, luggage situation… :-)
“Diving for the deck” is a standard TwOtter approach ... It can certainly be alarming the first few times, but you do get used to it.