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General => Simple Insanity => Topic started by: Aharon Dayan on March 20, 2019, 09:17:26 AM
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Shalom and greetings all my pals,
I am sure all of you would recall the terrible Category 5 Hurricane Maria on 18 September 2017 hit Dominica which suffered a direct landfall with damage to 90% of the buildings on the island with infrastructure left in ruins which propelled many many airlines to fly relief aid supplies neighboring islands to be loaded on ferry boats to Dominica or small planes flying directly to that island's airport which had 7/8 of runway intact and 1/8 being washed out.
Presenting emergency relief aid flight from TTPP Piarco International Airport located 19 miles east of downtown Port of Spain in Trindad to TDPD Douglas–Charles Airport ormerly known as Melville Hall Airport located on the northeast coast of Dominica 2 miles northwest of Marigot and one hour away from the second largest city Portsmouth.
Full loaded with emergency relief aid supplies taxing to short of runway 10
(https://i.ibb.co/Pg0r2yr/pp1.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/bXFjTNL/pp2.jpg)
Entering into runway 10 for take off
(https://i.ibb.co/6Fx0dVp/pp3.jpg)
Airborne on climb to FL300 to start the CAI SV BNE FOF APKIT LIDOS VOLAB KAROT NOSAM UKROS route
(https://i.ibb.co/h8D1cQh/pp4.jpg)
Making route adjustment toward destination
(https://i.ibb.co/jk6wTD2/pp5.jpg)
Leaving island of Trindad
(https://i.ibb.co/dkhn2CG/pp6.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/G9pMZJD/pp7.jpg)
Dig beautiful Caribbean waters
(https://i.ibb.co/TgjyTp0/pp8.jpg)
Cruising across deep blue Caribbean sea
(https://i.ibb.co/mbZpmCM/pp9.jpg)
Cruising at FL300
(https://i.ibb.co/5MhQX1d/pp10.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/B4mW4fG/pp11.jpg)
Passing island of Grenada
(https://i.ibb.co/CP91GfG/pp12grenada.jpg)
More beauty of Caribbean waters
(https://i.ibb.co/827qgB9/pp13.jpg)
Passing island of Carriacou (I bet you never heard of that)
(https://i.ibb.co/m4V9P5F/pp14tgpz.jpg)
Passing TVSU Union Island Airport located on Union Island of Grenadines Parish, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
(https://i.ibb.co/s5BtQ7x/pp15tvsu.jpg)
Leaving Union island
(https://i.ibb.co/F8MPsky/pp16.jpg)
Cruising
(https://i.ibb.co/0ynGK4g/pp17.jpg)
Passing tiny inhabitant islands
(https://i.ibb.co/xHYyMXm/pp18.jpg)
Passing TVSB J. F. Mitchell Airport located on Bequia island of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
(https://i.ibb.co/G3FBzZG/pp19tvsb.jpg)
More cruising
(https://i.ibb.co/Y8CGD8k/pp20.jpg)
Passing TLPL Hewanorra International Airport located near Vieux Fort Quarter in Saint Lucia
(https://i.ibb.co/mb7jzXH/pp21tlpl.jpg)
Passing TLPC George F. L. Charles Airport located 1.2 miles north of Castries which is the capital city of Saint Lucia
(https://i.ibb.co/F0g6wQY/pp22tlpc.jpg)
Approaching island of Martinique
(https://i.ibb.co/xfW9hHv/pp23fof.jpg)
Cruising past rich green pastures of Martinique
(https://i.ibb.co/TmCrQTf/pp24fof.jpg)
Passing Martinique's capital city Fort-de-France and its TFFF Martinique Aimé Césaire International Airport
(https://i.ibb.co/hCMPhzH/pp25fof.jpg)
More views of Martinique
(https://i.ibb.co/P5tf9D4/pp26fof.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/C8trqXm/pp27fof.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/642kc64/pp28.jpg)
Leaving island of Martinique
(https://i.ibb.co/28QSQTt/pp30.jpg)
Descending to 10,000 ft
(https://i.ibb.co/dL7yD4H/pp29.jpg)
At 5,000 ft
(https://i.ibb.co/GdZGSkw/pp31.jpg)
At 3,000 ft making turn toward runway 09
(https://i.ibb.co/g3SqJXL/pp32.jpg)
On final runway approach carefullly positioning to make touchdown on piano bars of runway to avoid the washed out end of runway
(https://i.ibb.co/R0sMKTS/pp33.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/PcVQhkK/pp34.jpg)
Seconds before touchdown (darn missed piano bars which meant that unusual steep braking would be required)
(https://i.ibb.co/Jv1vqfw/pp35.jpg)
TOUCHDOWN
(https://i.ibb.co/zhxb5MM/pp36.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/1bgc2sw/pp37.jpg)
Stopping in time to avoid washed out end of runway
(https://i.ibb.co/hK1SXm8/pp38.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/7J4vnD0/pp39.jpg)
Arrived at gate to unload emergency relief aid supplies and will have no trouble taking off empty weight with enough remaining fuel to make to neighboring island for refuel
(https://i.ibb.co/CJ801Cb/pp41.jpg)
Thank you for viewing! Stay tuned for next exciting flight!!
Regards,
Aharon