ptomblin's airport comments

Official web site linked here and from Wikipedia is a holding page. This article http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_31540.shtml seems to indicate they are in deep financial trouble.

My data (from Eurocontrol) says MALANG / ABDUL RAHMAN SALEH.

Reply to @david: Yeah, I made some sort of paste error when I saw the subdivision.

Reply to @david: My Eurocontrol data gives the lat/long as 37.391667 | 144.738333, but I don't see anything there except a subdivision.

There is no animal, and there is nothing the airport can do because the scammer isn't at the airport. Block their phone number and their email and ignore them. They may try to contact you with more fake credentials and different email addresses, but keep ignoring them. Nothing good can come out of engaging with these people.

Yes, it's a scam. Did you read the other comments in this thread? It's always a scam. If you want a dog, go see a breeder, or go to your local pound.

One of the things that this site provides is a link to the official web site for the airport (if we know of it). In the case of this airport, we do have a link to it. Perhaps if you can't find what you want here, you should try the one that people are actually getting paid to maintain, instead of rubbishing the one that's done by volunteers?

Have a look at http://helpmerick.com/fun_with_cameroon_pet_scams.htm where the person pretended to play along with the scammer for a while. One of the people in the comments did that, but at the end went and told the scammer everything they were doing wrong, which I think is a big mistake because it will only serve to make the scammers better at scamming.

It's a scam. Go to a reputable breeder in your own country, preferably one where you can go visit the facilities and see that the animals are happy and healthy. You might think it's expensive, but it's way cheaper than what people are getting scammed for, and you'll actually end up with a puppy, not just a lot of promises.

You should probably contact Scenic Airlines http://www.scenic.com/ as they seem to be the only company operating into this airport. They appear to be a tour company rather than a simple airline.

ourairports.com doesn't have its own fleet of satellites. It has to rely on what Google provides. If the picture is out of date, then only Google can update it.

Reply to @prattsoplenty: I'm very sad about this. I went to the museum last year, and was amazed to find it was in the same building where I'd been in the Air Cadets in the mid 1970s (188 Squadron). It's a great little museum - obviously underfunded, but a real labour of love.

The first time I flew here was at night, and my first cross country with my wife. I came in off the lake shore and the controller said that he saw me on a right base. I said I couldn't see the airport (this was before the days of GPS). So the controller flashed the runway lights and I could see it. My wife was incredibly impressed that they flashed the whole airport at me.

This website isn't supposed to be a substitute for legal datasources like your own country's aeronautical information publications or Jeppesen. It's crowd sourced, which means if you know something is wrong, tell us the correct values and we'll correct what we have.

See up in the top right, where is says "Sign on"? Click it.

It looks like the foundations for the approach light system to me.

So where *do* you hope people crash?

Well, it would be a much better website if people would tell us what the name changed to instead of just excoriating us for getting it wrong.

Take it up with Google. Nothing we can do about it.

Reply to @thesis: Look what it says on the "KQ" header: "(METAR weather station sites operated by the U.S. Department of Defense)"

In other words, "KQTX" isn't the airport, it's the weather station.

Wikipedia says:

The airport is currently closed to air-traffic, although the concrete paved runway has been designated for use by cargo flights in the event of an emergency. There is an aerospace museum on site.

Reply to @ptomblin: There seems to be evidence on the net that there is a weather station here with the ICAO code KQMG, but since, as I said, ICAO codes starting with K are reserved for the US, I can only speculate that this is a US armed forces weather station, not an Iraqi one. Iraqi airports that have ICAO codes have codes that start with "OR". All ICAO airport codes are 4 letters long, and one or two letters of that code designate the country, so airports in the "lower 48" contiguous US states that have ICAO codes (not all do, some have local codes) have codes that start with "K", airports in Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico have codes that start with "PA", "PH" and "TJ" respectively, Canadian airports have codes that start with "C", etc.

Reply to @thesis: ICAO codes starting with K are only for airports in the US. Whoever told you this one was KQMG is full of it.

I've moved the marker.

Eurocontrol has a heliport at this location, called "GRAZ LKH" with ICAO id "LOGH".

Reply to @ptomblin: I confirmed from the AIP that the elevation is really 520 ft.

Just got an email from a user of the CoPilot iPhone app saying that the elevation isn't 118 ft, it's closer to 500 ft. I wonder if that means it's really 118 metres? If you go to the terrain map you see an unlabeled contour line and then another labeled 200 m as you head uphill from the airport.

You refer to the DC-10 as an old airframe, and yet you prefer the VC-10, which first flew nearly 50 years ago? I'm willing to bet the DC-10 is *way* more fuel efficient and cheaper to operate. Probably safer too. And according to Wikipedia, the only flying VC-10s are tankers - the rest are there for spare parts.

Wikipedia also says that some of the Tristars passenger/tanker combos, and some of the passenger Tristars have counter measures against ground fire so they are used to fly people into possibly hostile places like Iraq and Afghanistan. So it's not that they don't use the Tristars, just that they don't waste them on moving people around in safe airspaces.

Man, you're hilarious. Go back to your Chuck Norris fantasy, dude, you're really lousy at this one. And I'm not going to point out the 15 reasons why your story is obviously full of shit, because I don't want to hear your next load of BS to try and explain this load of BS away.

By the way, I'm supposed to be impressed you have an iPhone? I write apps for the iPhone, moron.

So you're going to go over there, and assuming Western Union has exactly the same procedures in Cameroon as they do in Indiana, some American doofus who doesn't speak the language and has no legal authority is going to get them to show you a picture. That picture will be of some guy who the scammers grabbed off the street and paid $5 to go collect the money, probably a beggar or a prostitute. He never saw them before or since. You are going to spend a month going around asking everybody in the whole city if they've seen this guy, and even if somebody has and can point them out, the trail will go completely cold at this point because he knows nothing about the scammers. Meanwhile everybody in Cameroon will know you're an idiot and will be working scams on you, including the police and the military. You'll spend every cent you have, and if you're really really lucky you won't get kidnapped or killed. Where exactly does you ability to kill as part of a military organization benefit you in this scenario? Cameroon jails are probably not pleasant places, and while the police are corrupt they won't hesitate to throw a foreigner in jail if he starts threatening people or brandishing weapons.

I advise everybody here to go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppy_scam#Puppy.2Fpet_scam and first read the section on puppy scams. Then read the section on why they use Western Union (hint: it's completely, 100% untracable). Then read the section called "Followup scamming", because although sadly somebody who writes English as badly as the guy I'm replying to might actually be an American, he probably isn't. Then read the section called "Physical harm or death" about all the people who have been kidnapped and/or killed because they thought they'd go show those Africans a thing or two.

Be sure and update your will. Your widow will appreciate it, providing she doesn't first give all your money to the kidnappers as ransom before they kill you.

You're either a scammer or an idiot. People who've traveled to Africa to confront scammers have either ended up being held for ransom or dead. "Some cop in Indiana" doesn't have the sophistication to trace through dead drop email addresses and Western Union drops. Especially not if he's already proven that he's the sort of doofus who falls for simple scams that 5 minutes of googling would have shown is a scam.

The classic followup to the puppy scam is a second scam that promises to help you exact revenge on the original scammers, but which will end up costing you even more money for nothing. You've already proven you're an easy mark. Don't get suckered in a second time.

Reply to @ptomblin: Sorry, CBR2 isn't an ICAO code, it's just a Canadian code.

CBR2 is its ICAO code. It doesn't have an IATA code.

Actually, the data dump I bought from Eurocontrol calls it "SHARANA (SHARONA)", so I assume that means it has or had both names.

Yes, you got screwed, and if you keep dealing with them you're going to get even more screwed. They'll send you a cashiers check and have you send the money via Western Union to an accomplice. Then you will discover the cashiers check is forged and the money you send it gone forever. They use Western Union because it's untracable.

They look like center pivot irrigation to me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_pivot_irrigation

If you click "Show Points of Interest", is that marker on what you mean?

The satellite picture corroborates what you said, so I'm marking it closed.

I've added the link.

@Anonymous, the FAA disagrees with you. According to them, there are two separate airports called "Moberg Air Base", one a land base MI13, and one a seaplane base 96M.

Dave, did you make some change to the comment system recently? It seems like in the last few days, every comment by a non-logged in person is repeated three times.

My conversion script didn't like the fact that you don't have a designation for the grass strip but it looks parallel to the asphalt strip so I named it "13G/31G".

The runway designation appears to be missing.

I don't think "N75E" is a valid runway designation.

The puppy scam is a form of Advance Fee Fraud. The Wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_fee_fraud about Advance Fee Fraud specifically mentions "Pet scams", and specifically mentions Cameroon and Nigeria as being frequent sources of this variation of the scam. It also cautions you that after you realize you've been scammed, you may be contacted by the same scammers, this time posing as some sort of law enforcement trying to track down the original scammers, or who have arrested the scammers and only need money for paperwork to recover your lost money. Don't be fooled again. Nobody in Cameroon is going after these people, and nobody here can be bothered, and even if they did, they wouldn't be asking you for money.

I've made the change.

Reply to @Inducedrag: I see three runways on that map. Why do you think it needs to be changed?

We're not your personal research facility. If you're not getting the answer you need, then try doing some actual research.