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VFR Flight from Borinquen to Viequez,
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hier een mooie beschrijving van die vlucht:
VFR Flight from Borinquen to Viequez
This is intended to give the reader a written instruction on how to make this flight using VFR line of sight navigation. If you get lost then read ahead and keep your eyes open and you should soon see something to identify your position. I personally like to fly this flight using the Cessna Caravan in the Virtual cockpit mode. To do so gives the best vantage points for viewing the scenery. I little hint is to assign two keys to the Move eye point up and Move eye point down This allows you to move your seat height up and down quickly to see over the glare shield depending on aircraft attitude. I used default scenery and aircraft so anyone with FS2002 should be able to easily duplicate this flight. I hope you like my flight.
Ken Peckham
Start FS2002 and create a flight, select TJBQ and Parking spot #5. I used real world weather since the norm here is sunny in the morning with clouds building all day. When it opens you will be sitting on the ramp, facing west looking at the U.S. Coast Guard hanger. This is a non-controlled field so you can just fire up and taxi to the runway of your choice. Field elevation is 238 feet.
I left at noon and the flight lasted about 1 hour and 35 minutes. Runway 08 is usually the norm since the trade winds blow from the northeast here, but today it was 3 kts from the northwest so Taxi out to whichever one suits you. At the hold short line dial up the UNICOM freq of 123.0 and announce that you are taking off departing to the west. If you takeoff from RW 26 fly straight out on runway heading, if you take off from runway 08 turn around and fly over the field and head out to the west on a heading of 260. Regardless of which runway you use, climb to 1200 feet and fly out on a heading of 260. You dont have to talk to anyone on the radio here, but it might be prudent to dial up San Juan center on 119.45 and listen in for traffic.
Eighteen miles off the coast, out into the Mona Pass, you will come to a small island. This is the island of Desecheo (Dess-A-Chey-O). It is a local favorite for dive and snorkel trips. In the real world it towers to 715 feet but in FS2002 it is pretty much flat, Scenic none the less but flat. Here you can descend to 500 feet and admire the scenery. Circle the Island admiring the view then fly over it heading east and pick up a heading of 110.
This will put you back ashore at Higuero Point. Looking to the left or North of the Point is Aguadilla Bay. It is said that Christopher Columbus stopped here on his way to the new world searching for water. To the right or South are the Anasco and Mayaguez Bays. Turn to the South when you reach the shore line and proceed at what ever altitude you wish. I chose 500ft for most of this flight to be better able to see details.
Now is a good time to switch to 122.8 and listen in for traffic at the Mayaguez airport. American Airlines has ATR service from here to San Juan, three times daily. You will soon be seeing it on the left about a half of a mile inland. After you pass the airport you will see the city of Mayaguez.
Shortly past the city of Mayaguez, heading south, there is a beautiful tidal pool at Punta Arenas. Now would be a good time to tune back in to San Juan center on 119.45. I did not request flight following on this side of the island since there is very little traffic here, and I wanted the flexibility to loiter around and sightsee as much as possible. You can make circles and look around and adjust your heading as much as you want just keep heading south along the west shore.
Continuing South you will pass a small bay in Puerto Real. Then a large bay called Bahia de Boqueron. Here, off to the east, you should be able to see the cable for the tethered balloon called an Aerostat. It is used by the Customs service to assist in detection of drug smuggling activities. Some days it is up and flying as high as 15 thousand feet and other days it is not flying. The cable is even lighted for nighttime operations. If it is up, you will see it closer when you round the southwest corner of the island as it is flying out of La Paguera on the south shore.
Continue South passing the sea salt mines in the tidal flats until you see the Cabo Rojo lighthouse. It is located out on a spit of land sticking out signaling the entrance to the Caribbean Sea. There is a heart shaped bay here that is just begging to be visited by seaplane. Next time you may want to bring the Caravan on Floats. The cove by the lighthouse has the most sea anemone of any place I have ever seen. Turn left to the East when you reach the lighthouse.
This part of the island is considered a desert. There are cactus growing here because most of the rainfall hits the middle and northern parts of the island. Continue heading east until you pass the Aerostat and cable. This is the town of La Paguera. It is the largest boating and fishing fleet on this side of the island. Snorkeling in these waters you will see some pretty impressive starfish. There is also a small bay up ahead called Bioluminescent Bay. At night while swimming in this bay the luminescent plankton will make you look like a Human Sparkler.
Just past the next point of land, east of the Aerostat and Cable, is a bay that snakes its way back to the city of Guanica. This is a favorite vacation spot for many visiting tourists and locals.
The resorts in Guanica have a favorite spot to take the tourist out to by boat. It is the next landmark approaching you and it is called Guilligans Island. It is an unmistakable spit of land reaching toward you just off shore. In the real world this is actually a string of islands instead of a peninsula like it is depicted in FS2002. The southern shore of these islands are littered with hundreds of conch shells of all sizes. You must get there by boat to collect them.
Continuing on to the east you will come to the Bay of Guayanilla, it can be identified by the refinery tanks on the east side of the bay.
Approximately 8-10 miles east of the refinery you will come to the city of Ponce. (pronounced: Pon-Say) This is one of the oldest cities in Puerto Rico, named after Ponce de Leon, who was made famous by his search for the fountain of youth. This city is also the home of a few rum distilleries, one being Captain Morgan and one, Don Q. As you approach the city you should tune up the Ponce airport traffic advisory frequency of 122.7. When you pass the large crane along the shore look out at the 11 Oclock position to see the airport.
As you fly past the airport tune in 109.0 on your NAV radio and set the CDI needle to 120 degrees. This is the Ponce VOR and it is visible about a half a mile inland just east of the airport. After you pass the VOR and the needle centers up track the 120 radial outbound to the 5 DME position. Look out at your 11 Oclock again and you will see the Santa Isabel airport. If the winds are right you can do a touch and go with out even disrupting your flight path.
Continue east until you see a string of small barrier islands. These islands protect the entrance to the Bahia de Jobos easily identifiable by the series of smokestacks on the western side of the entrance to the bay. Just past this bay is another beautiful tidal pool. Fly over this pool and pick up a heading of 080 degrees.
Now would be a good time to set your comm. Radio back to San Juan center on 119.45 and listen for traffic. When flying in this area it is not uncommon to get bumped around by the turbulence caused by the trade winds that blow up and over the mountains just to the north. I was pleasantly surprised that this happened in FS2002 as well.
Stay on the 080 heading and you will fly right over top of the 2000ft airstrip at Patillas. Just about 3 miles north of the airport is a beautiful lake nestled in tightly to the back of the Sierra de Cayay mountains. Fly up to the lake and check it out. Be careful of the rapidly rising terrain on the north and east sides of the lake.
Leaving the lake return to the south shore and follow the road along the coast to Point Tuna. This is a good time to call in to San Juan center and pick up VFR flight following since there is a lot of traffic once you pass the south east end of the island. Follow the road until it breaks off from the shoreline and heads over the mountains to the north. This is the southeast corner of the island. Then climb up to 1500ft and pick up a heading of 080 degrees.
From here it is a 22 mile flight across the Viequez Channel to the infamous island of Viequez. The east end of the island is open to the public but the west end is used by the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier battle groups for bombing practice before heading out across the Atlantic for action. This is a very controversial subject in this part of the world, and has scared away many tourists, but if you do make it to the shores of this little gem of an island I think it is worth the trip. I anchored off this shore a few months ago in a 42ft sailboat and it is a beautiful place.
By now if you used the Real world weather option the clouds should be building up for the afternoon rain showers. This was a great thing to see in the simulator. San Juan Center will hand you off to Roosevelt Roads approach before you reach the island. You can cancel flight following with them when you get to the island. Fly to the left and follow the North shore until you see Antonio Rivera Rodriquez airport.
This is easy to find since it has a long spit of land sticking out to the north and is the only airport on the north shore. Depending on the winds you can do a straight in approach to runway 09 or enter a right downwind for runway 27. After landing slow down before exiting the runway onto the grass taxi areas and park on the gravel parking area to the north of the runway.
You are now sitting in the Spanish Virgin Islands and if you look to the east you can see the island of Culebra rising out of the beautiful waters. Beyond that is St Thomas and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and beyond that lay the British Virgin Islands. Welcome to Paradise!
I hope you enjoyed your flight.
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