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
Great post ....and again I learned some new stuff.
