Just Over Broke

Sitting here looking out this office window every day for the last decade at distant sprawling hills and blue skies beyond. Hoping things would get better doing the same thing over and over. Unless I get out of this comfort zone I am just another statistic walking on thin ice.

But during those office hours while the body is only reacting and the mind is drifting far away out there beyond these four walls. Somewhere beyond those hills far away from the city life is more refreshing to the human mind and soul, then this shrinking cubicle with all its work load pressures and dead line schedules with no incentives to motivate but drive one insane.  It has all been a lie.

Who came up with this idea of a job in the first place?  Wake up in the mornings and splash water to your face. Skip breakfast because you are running late again and head out into the day like the rest of the zombies in the public transport stuck in the morning traffic that's become the norm in this city.

You clock in.  Switch on your computer .  Log into the network. Open your office applications.   Open your virtual work queue.  Start processing for the next 8 hours or more.  Then the phone starts ringing off the hook, emails are coming, faxes are coming, more paper work is coming.  Finally its time to go home.   You close your applications.  Shut down and clock out.  You travel home, have dinner and go to bed and have a strange dream about cubicles closing in on you in a psychiatric ward.   You wake up screaming and morning has just broken. You are tired you want to sleep further but you have to wake up to earn your bread and butter. So you rinse and repeat what you did yesterday...to be continued. 

Calidus Autogyro – My Personal Sky Ride

The Calidus Autogyro designed and manufactured by Autogyro GmbH and launched in 2009 has got to be the ultimate personal joy ride machine by far I’d have to say.

Well may be you have your own tastes.

But for me this has got to be it, for now. 

It is cheaper then conventional helicopters and ultra light planes.

It is practically safe to ride because of the principle behind how it is flies.

It does not need long run ways to take off or even land.

You can travel cross country with it and visit families in the rural country.

You could even take it home with you. 

Just some of the benefits about it.

How cool is that?  And that is why I love it.

I am from Papua New Guinea and it has one of the most rugged and mountainous terrain with untouched virgin jungles and forests in the world; making it of one the most difficult to travel practically by road.

So the only way to get around the country, ever since, is by air.

It is expensive but that is how this country was built; through aviation transport and services from the shores to the inlands and the highlands.

The only national airline carrier in PNG is Air Niugini and it has a monopoly on the airline industry in PNG.

There are other third-air line such as, MAF and Airlines PNG but Air Niugini has aerodromes in all the provinces of PNG.

Getting back to my personal choice for the ultimate joy ride machine, the Calidus Autogyro would make personal cross country movement a lot cheaper in PNG I reckon especially for those daring enough to take a ride in one of this sky “motorbikes” ;) 

To fly a factory made autogyro such as the Calidus or the Gyro MTOSport you would require a gyrocopter pilot license. 

By the way, I don’t know how to fly a conventional airplane or a chopper yet but I read you can fly a gyrocopter quite easily with about a minimum of 30 hours of practical flight training plus theory and exams.

Imagine what it would be like to go flying early in the mornings or late in the afternoons just before the sun rises or sets. The views would be just spectacular.

Have you flown an autogyro before?  What was it like? It must have been a rush your first ride.

Be sure to tell me more about your adventure ride in an autogyro by leaving me a comment.

I got to go now. 

Chat soon!