IMPORTANT: This Landing Challenge requires St Helena Airport Freeware addon by Superspud (URL: https://flightsim.to/file/363/fhsh-st-helena-airport)
Description:
St Helena Airport may be the most difficult airport that commercial airliners visit. The remote island of St Helena is a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic that is most well known as the place where Napoleon spent his last few years in exile.
The remote island had for years only been accessible by boat (a trip that took one week from Cape Town, South Africa), but in the early 2010s the UK Governemnt decided to build an airport to better connect the island to the rest of the world and hopefully build a tourism sector. After years of construction and 285 million pounds of government money, the airport was completed in 2016.
There was one major problem though- the airport location suffered from severe wind shear most of the time. Due to the windshear problems, the original plans for nonstop scheduled flights from Johannesburg and Cape Town in 737s had to be cancelled. The largest plane capable of landing here with the wind shear was now an Embraer-190, and the flights have to stop to refuel in Walvis Bay, Namibia.
The runway is surrounded by cliffs on both sides so don't overrun!
Make sure to arm speedbrakes, set flaps to 2 or 3, and set autobrakes!
This Landing Challenge can be found under 'Strong Winds"
Note: You must have the A32NX by FlyByWire to fly this landing challenge.
Instructions: Extract the file, drag and drop the file into the community folder.
Made using BushMissionGen
IMPORTANT: This Landing Challenge requires St Helena Airport Freeware addon by Superspud (URL: https://flightsim.to/file/363/fhsh-st-helena-airport)
Please let me know if you have any feedback or tips! Any help with better replicating the severe wind shear would especially be helpful. Thanks!
I might have been a lil Kevin there. But get into this landing challenge if you are ready to exit MSFS. This is great short cut to desktop 😊
3 years ago
bhusuku
This mission crashes on startup with a message that I have over-stressed the A320NX. What could be causing this ?
3 years ago
try clicking Fly before it auto starts
3 years ago
runwild
Radcliffe
Gonna go get me some tomato paste and fish cakes
3 years ago
iprintscreen
in heavy wind or windsheer conditions you dont do a full flap config... Max flap 3... You need the speed to counter unforseen windsheer conditions. Great feat to have it in the landing challenges though, I will certainly give it a try 😉
3 years ago
Good Catch! Yes, please try it when you can and please lmk what you think!
3 years ago
grimehjo
Antisociety