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Good Caribbean airports within 2-300 miles of TNCM?

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I'm enjoying flying the heavies into Fly Tampa's TNCM but there doesn't seem to be much high quality payware (or freeware!) scenery for anywhere else nearby. I don't have time for long hauls and I'm not a big fan of time compression so can anyone recommend a destination with decent scenery within say 45 minutes' range of St Maarten?

Did you purchase the stand alone version of FTs TNCM? Because the complete version comes with St Barthelemy Gustave III (TFFJ) and Saba Juancho Yrausquin (SABA/TNCS), which are short hops in a prop, and are just amazing sceneries in and of themselves.

Smooth Skies! -- Chuck B.

 

MACHINE 1:FS2004/WinXP Pro 64, Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 Clocked to 4.35 GHz, Corsair H50, Asus Maximus Formula, 4GB PNY XLR8 DDR2 @1067, ATI 4870 and 4650, WD Raptor 10K RPM 160 GB HD, Seagate 500 mgb 32mgb cache, 2 Analog 2HTGs w/ 3 19" I-INC flat panel monitors 1280x1024x32, and 1 17" at 1280 x 1024, PC Silencer 750 Quad, FSPassengers, FSUPIC, (Payware), WideFS

MACHINE 2: Dell Dimension, P4, WideClient, FDC Live Cockpit, Pro Flight Emulator, Active Sky v6.5

MACHINE 3: ASUS u81A Laptop, Windows 7 (what a joke!), WideClient, FlightSim Commander

I'm enjoying flying the heavies into Fly Tampa's TNCM but there doesn't seem to be much high quality payware (or freeware!) scenery for anywhere else nearby. I don't have time for long hauls and I'm not a big fan of time compression so can anyone recommend a destination with decent scenery within say 45 minutes' range of St Maarten?
TropicalSim has a ton of Caribbean airports available http://secure.simmarket.com/caribic-page-1.chtmlUnfortunatley 45min isn't much time for available airports to get a heavy into.TJSJ San Juan, MKJP Norman Manley International Airport, MKJS Sangster International Airport, TBPB Grantley Adams International Airport,TAPA V. C. Bird International Airport. Are common ones I fly to. Usually an hour or two away.

Clarke Kruger - CYEG 

 

 

Here's a list of Airports that can handle heavies within an hour or so from St.Maarten.All of the airports are made by TropicalSim either separately or part of their fly to caribe Packs,or their Carribean Bundle (worth it IMOif you fly around the Carribean a lot).The exception is San Juan TJSJ, Blueprint has a freeware San Juan scenery that can be downloaded from their site.

NM91   TAPA   Antigua106  TIST   St.Croix171  TJST   San Juan  (Blueprint freeware)280  TLPL   St.Lucie300  MDPC   Punta Cana350  TBPB   Barbados365  TGPY   St.Georges Grenada425  TTCP   Crown Point Tobago448  TTPP   Port of Spain Trinidad460  TNCB   Bonaire480  TNCC   Curacao522  TNCA   Aruba

TropicalSims Carribean bundle link.http://secure.simmarket.com/tropicalsim-ca...le-200812.phtmlRegards.Ernie.

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There's a freeware program here in the files section called something like "Destination Finder" that is very handy for just this kind of information. Do a search for it in the FS2004 Utilities section -- I don't think you'll regret it.

Smooth Skies! -- Chuck B.

 

MACHINE 1:FS2004/WinXP Pro 64, Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 Clocked to 4.35 GHz, Corsair H50, Asus Maximus Formula, 4GB PNY XLR8 DDR2 @1067, ATI 4870 and 4650, WD Raptor 10K RPM 160 GB HD, Seagate 500 mgb 32mgb cache, 2 Analog 2HTGs w/ 3 19" I-INC flat panel monitors 1280x1024x32, and 1 17" at 1280 x 1024, PC Silencer 750 Quad, FSPassengers, FSUPIC, (Payware), WideFS

MACHINE 2: Dell Dimension, P4, WideClient, FDC Live Cockpit, Pro Flight Emulator, Active Sky v6.5

MACHINE 3: ASUS u81A Laptop, Windows 7 (what a joke!), WideClient, FlightSim Commander

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