WINDWARD STOL Challenge: flight 4a - St. Maarten-St. Barthelemy (SXM-SBH-SXM)

About the flight: Winair flight 711 makes a round trip at mid-day in 2 legs, in gray rainy weather. The first leg to St. Barthelemy requires a diving short-runway landing. The flight then returns to St. Maarten.

WARNING: Before this flight, you should practice STOL landings at St. Barthelemy, using flight Win0b-STOLlandingpractice-SBH.

All 2 legs - Time: about 45-60 min. Length: 40-60 nm.
This leg - Time: 15-25 min. Length: 20-35 nm. Load: 25% fuel, 20 passengers (100% of max.).

Weather: Gray and rainy, low visibility. Winds from 130° at 10 kt.

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)

St. Maarten-St. Barthelemy: The flight begins on the ramp at St. Maarten, at the scheduled time of departure: 11:30.

Unpause, press S to jump into the cockpit. If desired, contact ATC for IFR clearance. Start the engines. After engine start, make sure the generators GEN1 and GEN2 are ON.

With ATC permission, taxi west to runway 09.

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, do this:
- when asked to "Report runway in sight", look for the runway behind a hill;
- land on runway 10.


If you do not use ATC, do this:
- after take-off, turn left to heading 110° and join VOR PJM's radial 122;
- just before Ile Fourchue (small island 12.5 nm from VOR PJM), turn right to heading 179°;
- before reaching NDB BY radial 111/291, turn left and start your descent;
- land on runway 10.


After landing, head for the far (eastern) end of the runway, turn around to the west, and turn left to the ramp.

Shut down the left engine. The scheduled arrival time is 11:45.

If you wish to fly the next leg with ATC, load flight Win4b-SXM-SBHramp-SXM (this loads the new flight plan). If you prefer to continue without ATC, use the following instructions.

St. Barthelemy-St. Maarten without ATC: The scheduled departure time is 12:00.

At 12:00, close the doors and start the left engine.

Take off to the east on runway 10, turn immediately left, and join VOR PJM radial 310.

Cruise at 2000 ft and 135 kt.

Land on runway 09.
The scheduled arrival time is 12:15.

Press ESC to end the flight. For the next round-trip flight in this Challenge, load flight Win5a-SXMramp-NEV-SKB-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