New England Routes & Missions

Route 1 [NER1] 1.7hr (in good weather)

Fly mail and hospital supplies from Concord (KCON) to Eastern Slopes Regional(KIZG)[Leg 1-27min], to Berlin (KBML) [Leg 2-16min], to Lebanon (KLBN) [Leg 3-34min.] - Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Ctr. and return to Concord (KCON) [Leg4-22min]. You may be in the virtual simworld, but don't try to take the short-cut through CONDOR Military Airspace or you may be accompanied by F-18s to Loring for a brief interview, not to mention being met on the tarmack by FAA and military officers (though you will be their guest, no band will be playing either). [Aircraft of Choice: BA-146-200].

Mission 1 [NEM1] .6hr

MedAir flights have been contracted out to PAJN East's Mountain Air pilots. We have a reputation for being the best in North America when it comes to mountain flying. MedAir has stationed an Aircraft at Concord (KCON). The route is to fly important equipment and a heart specialist from Concord to Lebanon's Dartmouth-Hitchcock Hospital. A young child needs emergency heart surgery. You will be cleared straight in on Rwy 18 (ILS 111.9). One difficulty: you must set your weather for a ceiling of 3500 ft overcast with light precip. Your altitude to KLEB is 6000. You're flying IFR. Be careful not to enter Yankee One to the north of KLEB. Good luck!! You'll need it. The child doesn't have time for a missed approach either.

Route 2a [NER2a] 1.4hr

Fresh lobster is being flown from Pease International Trade Ctr. (KPSM) to Halifax (CYHZ)[Leg 1]. If you choose, you can take on cargo and continue on to CYYG [Leg 2], then return to KPSM [Leg 3]. where you can remain overnight and enjoy the next day off. Otherwise from Halifax you can step up to the plate and fly mission 3 (MA NEM3).

Mission 3 [NEM3] 1.1hr

Special weather equipment is needed on Sable Island. You must get it there before evening, because there is no runway there, no lighting, and a huge storm has been tracked on Doppler heading east to west. With the hurricane season in full swing, that equipment is crucial (the crew there is also hoping that their mail, Starbucks whole-bean coffee, and several cases of Kaliber, non-alcoholic beer will make it there BEFORE the storm socks them in for many days.) Since Sable doesn't show up in the airport choices in FS9, simply take off from Halifax and fly a heading of 130 at 3,000'. Use either the Beachcraft Baron (as long as you have it refitted with special oversized balloon tires for a beach landing) OR you can fly the deHaviland (amphibian). When you are approx. 35 minutes from Halifax, you can pick up the morse code of NDB/ADF 277.0 located on Sable. The ADF will take you right to the south side of the beach where you can make a water landing. Make sure to use shift+E to lower your rudders for steering in the surf. When you taxi toward the tower, if you lower your landing gear just before coming ashore, you can taxi right up the the tower shack where the Station Chief, Gerry Forbes, will greet you (you already have his clearance to land because he's the one who requested Mountain Air to scramble the aircraft with his equipment). Be careful not to run over any seals or to spook the many wild horses. He takes a dim view of careless pilots. If you need windage info before landing Gerry will drive his truck out to the beach. He has a windsock on his antena and you can reach him via the special frequency you'll be given enroute. Good Luck. [If you want to make this mission more than a walk in the park, Set the weather as overcast, ceiling at 1500, ' with 10 mi. visibility; wind gusts to 45. Use the GPS to see the island, until you're able to fly VFR].

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Route 4a [NER4a] .8hr

Fly unknown cargo from Pease International Trade Ctr. (KPSM) to Westover Metro(KCEF). The return is NER4b. If you do BOTH in one day, log it as "NER4ab"

Route 5a [NER5a] 1.0hr (above 10,000)

Fly secret freight from Pease International Trade Ctr. (KPSM) to Loring (ME16). The return is NER5b. If you do BOTH in one day, log it as "NER5ab"