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Matt Dearden
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Jun 11, 2026
The Worst Place to Be a Pilot: Bush Flying Papua's Deadliest Airstrips | Matt Dearden
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36:32Chris WatsonHOST
So when you, you were co-piloting there, did that immediately spark the, "I want to fly," uh, you know, "I want to, I want to do more of that, all that bush piloting?"
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36:42Matt DeardenGUEST
So yeah, the caravan operation that Susi Air operated was very much like an airline.
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36:47Matt DeardenGUEST
It operated, as I say, with captain and a co-pilot, so two pilots, and we would fly set routes.
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36:52Matt DeardenGUEST
They would generally be, you know, from a certain airport, there would be, you know, a dozen routes or so.
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36:56Matt DeardenGUEST
So you go out somewhere and come back again, very much like aircraft do in Europe, you know.
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37:00Matt DeardenGUEST
They fly between all the cities and only this would just be within Indonesia.
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Matt Dearden is "Flying from Shangri-La" which is also the "Worst Place to be a Pilot"
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4:55JBHOST
Is that kind of the short version?
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95:22JBHOST
So you wrote the book and it's doing quite well, but you just kind of on a whim, like started to take your notes and compile it into the book?