Emergency Hurricane Maria Relief Aid Cargo Hauling

[Aharon Dayan]

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





Entering into runway 10 for take off



Airborne on climb to FL300 to start the CAI SV BNE FOF APKIT LIDOS VOLAB KAROT NOSAM UKROS route



Making route adjustment toward destination



Leaving island of Trindad





Dig beautiful Caribbean waters



Cruising across deep blue Caribbean sea



Cruising at FL300





Passing island of Grenada



More beauty of Caribbean waters



Passing island of Carriacou (I bet you never heard of that)



Passing TVSU Union Island Airport located on Union Island of Grenadines Parish, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.



Leaving Union island



Cruising



Passing tiny inhabitant islands



Passing TVSB J. F. Mitchell Airport located on Bequia island of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines



More cruising



Passing TLPL Hewanorra International Airport located near Vieux Fort Quarter in Saint Lucia



Passing TLPC George F. L. Charles Airport located 1.2 miles north of Castries which is the capital city of Saint Lucia



Approaching island of Martinique



Cruising past rich green pastures of Martinique



Passing Martinique's capital city Fort-de-France and its TFFF Martinique Aimé Césaire International Airport



More views of Martinique







Leaving island of Martinique



Descending to 10,000 ft



At 5,000 ft



At 3,000 ft making turn toward runway 09



On final runway approach carefullly positioning to make touchdown on piano bars of runway to avoid the washed out end of runway





Seconds before touchdown (darn missed piano bars which meant that unusual steep braking would be required)



TOUCHDOWN





Stopping in time to avoid washed out end of runway





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



Thank you for viewing! Stay tuned for next exciting flight!!

Regards,

Aharon