WINDWARD STOL Challenge: flight 3b - Anguilla-St. Maarten (SXM-AXA-SXM)

About the flight: Winair flights 607/608 make a round trip in mid-morning in 2 legs, as a major thunderstorm rages. The second leg returns from Anguilla to St. Maarten.

All 2 legs - Time: about 30 min. Length: 20-40 nm.
This leg - Time: 10-20 min. Length: 10-20 nm. Load: 15% fuel, 12 passengers (60% of max.).

Weather: Major thunderstorm. Winds from 170° at 12 kt.

Airport and Navaid information:
- St. Maarten: elevation 13', runway 09/27 (no ILS), VOR/DME PJM 113.0, NDB PJM 308
- Anguilla: elevation 102', runway 10/28 (no ILS), NDB ANG 209

St. Maarten-Anguilla: The flight begins on the ramp at St. Maarten, at the scheduled time of departure: 11:05.

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 to the west end of the runway (10).

Take off and climb at 105 kt. Cruise at 1000 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 right to join VOR PJM's radial 210;
- about 4 nm from VOR/DME PJM, start your approach to runway 27;
- land on runway 27.


After landing, turn left to the ramp.

Shut down the left engine and open the doors. The scheduled arrival time is 11:15.

Press ESC to end the flight. For the next round-trip flight in this Challenge, load flight Win4a-SXMramp-SBH-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