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

About the flight: Winair flight 711 makes a round trip at mid-day in 2 legs, in gray rainy weather. The second leg returns from St. Barthelemy to St. Maarten.

All 2 legs - Time: about 45-60 min. Length: 40-60 nm.
This leg - Time: 15-25 min. Length: 20-35 nm. Load: 22% fuel, 14 passengers (70% of max.).

Weather: Gray and rainy, low visibility. Winds from 190° 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. Barthelemy-St. Maarten: The flight begins on the ramp at St. Barthelemy, at the scheduled time of departure: 12:00.

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 10.

Take off and climb at 105 kt, turning immediately to the left. 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 do not use ATC, do this:
- after take-off, turn left to join VOR PJM's radial 130/310;
- land on runway 27.


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