Aharon 464 Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 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 Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Entering into runway 10 for take off Please login to display this image. Airborne on climb to FL300 to start the CAI SV BNE FOF APKIT LIDOS VOLAB KAROT NOSAM UKROS route Please login to display this image. Making route adjustment toward destination Please login to display this image. Leaving island of Trindad Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Dig beautiful Caribbean waters Please login to display this image. Cruising across deep blue Caribbean sea Please login to display this image. Cruising at FL300 Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Passing island of Grenada Please login to display this image. More beauty of Caribbean waters Please login to display this image. Passing island of Carriacou (I bet you never heard of that) Please login to display this image. Passing TVSU Union Island Airport located on Union Island of Grenadines Parish, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Please login to display this image. Leaving Union island Please login to display this image. Cruising Please login to display this image. Passing tiny inhabitant islands Please login to display this image. Passing TVSB J. F. Mitchell Airport located on Bequia island of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Please login to display this image. More cruising Please login to display this image. Passing TLPL Hewanorra International Airport located near Vieux Fort Quarter in Saint Lucia Please login to display this image. Passing TLPC George F. L. Charles Airport located 1.2 miles north of Castries which is the capital city of Saint Lucia Please login to display this image. Approaching island of Martinique Please login to display this image. Cruising past rich green pastures of Martinique Please login to display this image. Passing Martinique's capital city Fort-de-France and its TFFF Martinique Aimé Césaire International Airport Please login to display this image. More views of Martinique Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Leaving island of Martinique Please login to display this image. Descending to 10,000 ft Please login to display this image. At 5,000 ft Please login to display this image. At 3,000 ft making turn toward runway 09 Please login to display this image. On final runway approach carefullly positioning to make touchdown on piano bars of runway to avoid the washed out end of runway Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Seconds before touchdown (darn missed piano bars which meant that unusual steep braking would be required) Please login to display this image. TOUCHDOWN Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Stopping in time to avoid washed out end of runway Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. 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 Please login to display this image. Thank you for viewing! Stay tuned for next exciting flight!! Regards, Aharon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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