The prevailing winds in the St. Barts area is the Trades. (Easterlies)
Occasionally we would land in St. Barts over the beach. Once my boss "collided" with a tourist. As the Beech 18 with nose wheel mod crossed the beach, a tourist popped up with a camera to get a close up photo. The nose wheel hit the tourist in the shoulder.
The pilot pulled up and stalled and crash- landed on the runway. Manin struts came up through the wings.
St. Barts has always been interesting, but if any airplane is suited for that kind of strip and apporach, it is indeed the the Twin -Otter.
I flew scheduled flights from St.Thomas to St. Barths in Aztecs and C-402s.
Sure wished I had the STOL performance and reverse trust of the DHC-6.
One wild man landed a DC-3 in St. Barts once.
He took off immediately,(Before he got arrested) flew back to St. Thomas and bragged to his buddies that he took a 3 into St. Barts. Nobody belived him so he flew back to St. Barts with the 3, jumped out and took pictures, then flew back to prove he did it.
(I refused to belive it until I saw the pictures.)
There has been many crashes in St. Barts over the years.
In fact the locals would sit in the airport bar, sip a Heinekken and wait for the next crash.
(Typically a rich private pilot from the States with a C-210 and wife and kids)
Usually once a month somebody would try and fail.
Also several commercial crashes, including the operator I flew for.
Get some high-speed boats going from St. Martten instead of flying.
It is only a few miles.
What a waste of human lifes.
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