Karubaga Airport (ICAO: WAVG) is an airfield in Karubaga, in the Tolikara Regency of Papua, Indonesia.
Located on a hillside within a small valley, Karubaga Airport consists of a single paved 2385 ft runway with a severely steep slope. Departing aircraft can expect an exhilarating launch down runway 35, and arrivals should anticipate a winding route into the valley, followed by a sharp final turn for runway 17. After touchdown, keep the power on until you reach the crest of the hill. While apron space and airport services are limited, improvements are ongoing.
Several small airstrips are just minutes away, and I recommend downloading these packs if you are flying in the area:
Bush strips in Papua
Papua / New Guinea terrain fixes
Western New Guinea (Papua) Airports
Karubaga Airport serves as a hub in Papua for the Bush Divers. We are a bush flying community and virtual airline hosting weekly fly-in events. Join us at BushDivers.com, or on Discord.
If you have the depricated version of WAVG that was previously included in my Papua airports pack, please delete or overwrite it with this new build.
robhaynes82
On top of it being an amazing airport, it's one amazing approach!
Well done and thank you.
shutclover
500th download. this is one of my favorite regional airports too!
fsnews24
Five stars!
You can find a small review here:
https://flightnews24.de/2022/02/05/karubaga-der-lukla-airport-indonesiens/
fStopper
Impressive and nice work. Thank you.
SBWorks
Looks great, will give a try!
BTW, the coordinates you provided are not the ones for WAVG (it leads to a remote, dirt runway).
TBM940--DELETED 1 year(s) ago
Thanks, good catch. Must've mixed up a few different sets of coordinates in my clipboard.
bstikkel
Wauw, you have allready published WAVG!!! Looks beautifull from the screens!
cptwink
looks like Lukla 😀
domkle
First, thank you for making this lovely airfield, appreciated ! I did a couple of flights from and to. There is an easy to rectify flaw, tall trees just before the 17 threshold (the landing end) which make landing very difficult even with the Porter. They don't exist in the real world if I believe photos found on the internet.
EDIT : It is not your design which is faulty, the trees come from another addon Bijan's Trees ! Just checked without, no more trees !
TBM940--DELETED 1 year(s) ago
Thanks for the follow up. I don't own any of Bijan's products yet but if I do pick them up I will keep this in mind and make compatible versions.
SBWorks 1 year(s) ago
That seems to be an common issue when one use "scrub_instead_of_trees" biome in scenery editor. Bijan is not using/integrating this biome (or with a mistakenly called biome "scrubs_instead_of_trees". I have the same issues in some of my airfields... :/
(my two cents)