WINDWARD STOL Challenge: flight 1c - Anguilla-St. Maarten (SXM-SBH-AXA-SXM)

Note: You may print out these flight instructions, or consult them in-flight (press F10). This flight assumes familiarity with FS2004 (FS9), its ATC, and the add-on Winair Twin Otter.

About the flight: Winair flight 201 makes a round trip at dawn in 3 legs, as a cloudy front passes through. This third leg returns to St. Maarten, and requires an approach near tall hills.

All 3 legs - Time: about 1 hour. Length: 50-80 nm.
This leg - Time: 10-20 min. Length: 10-20 nm. Load: 15% fuel, 8 passengers (40% of max.).

Weather: Cloudy and windy. Winds from 313° at 10 kt. To make the (artificial) weather change during the round trip, set its rate of change to extreme: press Alt-W, then W, then under Dynamic weather push the slider all the way to the right, then press OK.

Airport and Navaid information:
- St. Maarten: elevation 13', runway 09/27 (no ILS), VOR/DME PJM 113.0, NDB PJM 308
- St. Barthelemy: elevation 49', runway 10/28 (no ILS), 2100 ft long, NDB BY 338 (only present in add-on scenery)
- Anguilla: elevation 102', runway 10/28 (no ILS), NDB ANG 209

Anguilla-St. Maarten: The flight begins with the Winair Twin Otter on the ramp at Anguilla, at the scheduled time of departure: 07:50 on Feb. 1, 2004. The left engine is off, the avionics are on, most radio and autopilot settings are preset, and the flight plan is loaded.

Unpause, press S to jump into the cockpit. If desired, contact ATC for IFR clearance. Start the left engine (to autostart press E | 1 | Ctrl-E | E | 1 | 2). After engine start, make sure the generators GEN1 and GEN2 are ON. Also click the right gray button on the RMI (toward bottom left of panel) to link the green needle to the NDB ANG at Anguilla (you can magnify the RMI by clicking on it).

With ATC permission, taxi east to runway 28.

Take off and climb at 105 kt. Cruise at 2000 ft and 135 kt.

If the radio heading indicator (RMI) stops turning with the plane (FS2004 will warn you), switch GEN1 and GEN2 to ON.

If you follow ATC's instructions, let it guide you to the southeast and land on runway 27, plunging down over St. Maarten's hills.

If you do not use ATC, do this:
- after take-off, turn left to heading 210°;
- turn left to stay close to the west edge of St. Maarten's hills;
- land on runway 27.

After landing, turn right (north) to the ramp, and stop near the flag poles.

Shut down the engines (Ctrl-Shift-F1) and open the doors (Shift-E and Shift-E | 2). The scheduled arrival time is 08:00.

Press ESC to end the flight. For the next round-trip flight in this Challenge, load flight Win2a-SXMramp-SAB-EUX-SXM.

Further documentation: Read the Word file FS2004 MV challenge - Windward STOL.doc, located in the folder C:\My Documents\Flight Simulator Files\Windward STOL (or similar path).

Copyright 2004 Michael Vone