Grenadines Leg One

Yes, leg one of five I did in the Grenadines today. Using Fly Tampa's Grenadines package and Latin VFR's version of TTCP.

I know Liat airlines currently only has Q300's in their fleet. But they used to have BN2-Islanders so this is what I went with. No Liat repaint for her so you will not see exterior shots. She is a real bute on the inside (the Flight1 BN2). So you will love the cockpit shots.....

Today's legs were as follows.

TTCP-TVSB-TVSM-TVSU-TGPZ-TTCP.

Some of the legs very short, book ended with two one hour plus stints from/to TTCP (Crown Point, Tobago).

Weather for the trip was clouds scattered at 3'200 and a mild 32C. Wind was from easterly 115/11kts. It stayed this way through most of the legs today.

Taxi to the active (RW 11) TTCP.


These were my first flights on the log for the BN2. I have done plenty of practice in her.

It is a pleasure to fly, like a giant sized Cessna 172. Much louder than the Cessna, even the F1 version of the BN2 can pound your ear drums into oblivion. My ears still ring after my three plus hours of flight time in her today.

I had trouble finding a POH for this bird but from some of the reading I did find it's a pretty basic bird to fly. Remember 70kts as that is the rotation speed, and landing speed......

First leg was the longest from TTCP (Crown Point in Tobago) to TVSB (J.F Mitchell on Bequia in the Grenadines).

I used the BN2 GPS as my moving map (just using the coordinates and a WAC chart for the Caribbean I have, it has no moving map). And I also used VOR's and ADF's to navigate my way around. I had a nice tail wind for the trip north and was topping out at 12okts....

The landing at TVSB was a greaser with it's big 3'600ft plus length.

Short final TVSB


Leg time was 1hr 21 minutes

It was a short turn around and then off to TVSM (Mustique Island).