IMPORTANT PROCEDURES FOR Naval Station Guantanamo Bay

[Aharon]

Shalom and greetings all my pals,

If any of you want to fly to Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, I feel need and importance to let all of you know about SPECIAL PROCEDURES on how to fly to Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Nope nope it is NOT simple crossing of Cuba which the Cuban government does NOT allow.

So I have presented a nice example below of the flight I flew few years ago that will explain to all of you SPECIAL PROCEDURES on how to approach Naval Station Guantanamo Bay WITHOUT WITHOUT crossing Cuba or WITHOUT WITHOUT touching Cuban air space.

Here is cool special military cargo contract flight from KFLL Fort Lauderdale �Hollywood International Airport southwest of the central business district of Fort Lauderdale, Florida to MUGM United States air force base Leeward Point Field also known as Leeward Airfield located at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Guant�namo Bay, Cuba as this air force airport is always used daily for heavy air cargo operations from America bringing daily flights ferrying food, supplies, mail, and all necessary materials to Americans living in that area.

Before I present you screenshots, let me explain unusual rules concerning airspace above Cuba based on what I had learnt from aviation experts especially ones extremely knowledgeable on Cuba's airports.

For all airlines not from America, they are free to fly over Cuba and cross Cuba. For all airlines from America such as Delta, JetBlue, etc etc, they are allowed same privilege as mentioned above AS LONG as it is strictly commercial passenger or cargo flights. For America military planes OR any commercial non military passenger and cargo airlines UNDER military contract with America's military forces are NOT allowed to fly above Cuba to cross Cuba from America to South or vice versa. They must fly AROUND Cuba to avoid airspace and observe 12 mile limit from Cuban's shores to remain in international airspace.

In order for America to fly cargo planes to American base in Cuba from anywhere in America, they would need to fly around eastern shores of Cuba, fly south of Cuba, make right turn to fly into American territory area of Cuba, and then make sharp right turn to approach the air force base runway!!!

It is VERY EXCITING approach especially a pilot must make sure not to violate Cuba's air space or borders while doing visual approach to the American airport/base's runway!!!!

I will be using real world route BEECH1 BEECH ZBV A315 ZIN BYGON 1955N 07357W 1935N 07507W for my screenshot flight report.

Here is video of real world real life approach that I will be using:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-zgzqI_Gsc

More explanations on how to approach and land:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=RBhoFBRGtCw

Here is flight route map that I had flown for this flight screenshot report:

http://i770.photobucket.com/albums/xx348/CVA0343/MountainAir/gm36.jpg


Airborne on climb to FL350 after take off from KFLL runway 09R using BEECH1 departure heading to JUMAR and BEECH

http://i770.photobucket.com/albums/xx348/CVA0343/MountainAir/GM1.jpg

http://i770.photobucket.com/albums/xx348/CVA0343/MountainAir/GM2.jpg

Intercepting BEECH and making tight right turn to ZBV

http://i770.photobucket.com/albums/xx348/CVA0343/MountainAir/gm3.jpg

Because of regulations of the forums not allowing more than 4 screenshots per post, please be kind enough to go to this hyperink to view rest of the exciting flight.

Here is the link: http://tonymadgehjg.proboards.com/thread/9388/important-procedures-naval-station-guantanamo

Thank you for viewing my screenshots. Stay tuned for next exciting flight!!!

Regards,

Aharon

[tgycgijoes]

Thanks for sharing this! I was at Guantanamo for real quite a few years ago and the base then (and maybe now) was totally secure. We could see the senoritas with Russian mgs through the fence when going back and forth to the club. "Don't step off the sidewalks if you know what's good for you! LOL. This was when all this was still under Fidel and allied with the Soviet Union. May try this flight soon. :encouragement:

[stansdds]

This is pretty darned cool! Thanks for sharing!

[tgycgijoes]

I tried to fly this yesterday but had problems with another aircraft and cancelled. Disappointing because there was traffic and Kingston Center online. Setup it up again today in my Feelthere B733. The repaint is mine. I usually fly it from Dublin but today was from Fort Lauderdale to Guantanamo with the exact flightplan. I use Simbrief because you can prefile the flightplan with VATSIM and retrieve it in VATPilot and also you can save it in FSX format because FSX does not recognize user waypoints. I was disappointed because there were no controllers or live traffic. All the KMIA traffic flew North while I flew South, oh well. It was still a great flight with no problems. Here are some screen shots I took with Rapidshot. The first shot is at KFLL taxiing to runway 10L.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=68507&stc=1

Next is just after takeoff on Departure BEECH5 showing the MFD with the Flightplan in it and the FMC with the Legs Page.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=68508&stc=1

This shot if the MFD and FMC with the Approach to Runway 10 at MUGM loaded.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=68509&stc=1
This is just before the turn onto 084o for Final Approach

Here I am lined up just about ready to land.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=68510&stc=1

I don't know if you are like me but a lot of times you do everything exactly as you are supposed and today is the day FSX decides it doesn't want to cooperate but today was a good day and the sim and I got to "play nice together". Great flight! Again thank you for this post.

PS I have to find a new Guantanamo Bay scenery. All the runways and taxiways are perfect but a few of the buildings are up in the air. I may have uploaded an FS9 not FSX version yesterday. OOOPS!:dizzy:

[Aharon]

Tgycgijoes and Stansdds,

Thank you for your kind words.


Great flight! Again thank you for this post. I have to find a new Guantanamo Bay scenery.

Tgycgijoes,

Glad you enjoyed my screenshot flight report and glad that you recreated the flight!! I agree there is need for the naval base scenery for FSX use!

Regards,

Aharon