WestWind Airlines

Hi everyone.

I have started modifying the SCEL Mini-hub routes (I am actually flying the scheduled flights) and adding NOTAMS for some pertinent notes about the various destinations. I hope I'm doing the right thing, and I would appreciate any input from any other pilots. I am just concentrating on maintenance at present, and I hope we can add a few more routes later on.

Is there any such document that describes the minimum requirements of an airport with regards to aircraft size?

Thanks,

David 

 

 

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David Ross
WWA1754

Hi David,

 When I was flying in South America a month or so ago, I noticed that a lot of the times for the lenght of the routes we're wrong. You might want to look at that. About the runway lenghts, as far as I know in the P.O.H.'s of the different aircraft there is a minimum runway lenght. These can be found on the manafacturers website or in some cases in the documentation on some Westwind Aircraft. The runway lenghts for the airports comes up on flight sim and I'm sure its avaliable on the internet too. If I were you I would just pick the most common of each aircraft type (RJ,TP etc.) and use their minimum runway lenghts as a guideline. If you need any help with the mini-hub just drop me an email or a PM, I'd be glad to help.

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Eoin Coates
Senior Command Captain
Real World Student Pilot
Frankfurt am Mein-Hub Manager

"If the thought came into my head, I would go out and buy a gun"- Herb Kelleher's reply after being asked if he would start another airline.

Hi,

Yes! There are some very obvious mistakes in the route lengths (times). This will be one of the first things I want to fix up (as soon as I learn how to modify them). I haven't heard about P.O.H's can you please tell me about this?

I would also like to try and find out the the Real Life waypoints used for routes, as using the standard GPS routes obviously get you too close to mountains etc. If you could shed some light on this I would also greatly appreciate it.

Thanks a million,

David 

 

 

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David Ross
WWA1754

P.O.H's are Pilot Operationg Handbooks. Not all Westwind aircraft have them, but to get to the ones that do, go onto the aircraft downloads page open up the aircraft you want and if it has one it will show up as Documentation beside the FSX and FS9 downloads. Click on that and a PDF document will show up telling you all the nessecary information for the aircraft. On some aircraft there are other documentation like FAA Type Certification Data but it is usually a P.O.H..  Vroutes is probably the best thing that I know of for routes. Its avaliable on the VATSIM website in Pilot Software or on www.vroute.net, it has a lot of the flights real-world and virtual and their routes and waypoints, so you might want to use that. I'll have a look around for some of the other aircrafts P.O.H.'s on the internet for you. Again, If you need any other help just ask.

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Eoin Coates
Senior Command Captain
Real World Student Pilot
Frankfurt am Mein-Hub Manager

"If the thought came into my head, I would go out and buy a gun"- Herb Kelleher's reply after being asked if he would start another airline.

Just off the top of my head:

Turbo Props:

4,000 ft of runway (probably less for the King Air)

RJ's:

5,000 to 5,500 minimum

NB airliners:

6,000 to 6,500 feet

WB airliners:

7,000 feet (I have seen 767-300's at LGA, and ATA used to fly L1011's in and out of MDW)

SWB:

10,000 feet minimum, although a 777 could probably operate sucessfully off of an 8,000 to 8,500 ft runway (as long as it was at sea level).

At high altitude airports the runways will need to be a bit longer, or you need to depart at lower weights.....

 

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