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Paiela Airport is a short, high-altitude gravel airstrip serving the remote settlement of Porgera in the Papua New Guinea highlands. Sitting at over 6,000 feet amid mountainous terrain, it offers no published radio services or navigation aids, making it a strictly visual, self-briefed destination for the simulator pilot seeking a genuine highlands challenge.
Paiela Airport (ICAO: AYPB, IATA: PLE) is a small, single-strip airfield serving Porgera, a remote highlands community in Papua New Guinea. It sits at a lofty field elevation of 6,178 feet, reflecting the rugged, mountainous character of the surrounding terrain. For the flight simulation pilot, it represents the kind of short, unlit, unpaved bush strip typical of Papua New Guinea's interior, demanding careful attention to terrain, weather and approach planning rather than any reliance on instrument aids.
Paiela Airport lies at coordinates 5.3722 degrees South, 142.976 degrees East, near Porgera. No controlled airspace class, FIR boundary or nearby controlled aerodromes are specified, and pilots should treat the field as an isolated highlands strip surrounded by high terrain.
The airfield has a single physical runway, 01/19, surfaced in dirt and measuring 1,684 feet in length. There is no parallel or secondary runway, and no lighting or ILS equipment is fitted to either threshold.
No communications frequencies are published for Paiela Airport, and there is no known air-ground or air traffic control service. No navigational aids or instrument approach procedures are associated with the field, so all arrivals and departures must be conducted under visual flight rules.
