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Post by dutch11 on Feb 17, 2009 16:53:53 GMT -5
I'm flying a Pan Am flight from the 1939 timetable, and the first leg is from Miami to Antilla Cuba. I was wondering if anyone knew if there is an airport in MSFS for Antilla? There isn't one listed under Cuba. I checked Google and found some references to Antilla, but nothing about its airport. The other thing I was wondering was why Pan Am flew through here and not Havana on this flight.
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Post by Tom/CalClassic on Feb 17, 2009 19:08:56 GMT -5
Hi,
The ICAO code for Antilla Cuba is MUAT, but what are you flying? If a flying boat, they just landed in the harbor. I assume they flew to Antilla since it was more directly south of Miami, and they wouldn't have to backtrack west like they would from Miami to Havana.
Hope this helps,
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Post by dutch11 on Feb 17, 2009 20:13:09 GMT -5
I was using the DC-3. The timetable is somewhat vague on that score. According to the legend, both flying boats and Douglases flew this flight, but it doesn't specify which flew on which days and to which locations.
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Post by archtx on Feb 18, 2009 11:59:56 GMT -5
Dutch:
I checked an ONC chart for Cuba, and there is a minor airport north of the town named Barnes South, and another minor airport south named Herrera. Not too far east, across the bay is Nicaro, which is in Flight Simulator. Since the municipality, not just the town, is named Antilla, I am wondering if Nicaro might be the correct one. The chart is from 1969, but has revisions as of 1997.
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Post by dutch11 on Feb 18, 2009 13:01:57 GMT -5
Nicaro is the closest one, so you may be right. I flew into Holguin, which I'm almost sure isn't right, but it has AI traffic to it. I was wondering why Pan Am flew there in the first place. I know there are other Pan Am flights to Havana so that might be part of the answer, but it seems odd that a place that Pan Am considered important enough to fly into wouldn't have a bigger airport. I'm thinking that flying boats served the northern part of this flight until Panair do Brasil DC-2s and 3s took over, which is why the legend says that both types flew this flight.
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Post by archtx on Feb 18, 2009 14:25:36 GMT -5
One possible answer is that it had to do with their mail contracts. However, I would think it made more sense for their south american routes.
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