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Filmed in 2003 - Released in 2003

Windward Island Airways International is a government owned regional airline founded in 1961. The airline operates a fleet of Twin Otters from its base at the Princess Juliana Airport in St Maarten to many destinations in the Caribbean.
This program takes you to 7 island destinations including 2 of the most spectacular approaches in the world at Saba Island and St Barth with 2 of the shortest runways along with obstacles not to mention the very scenic arrival at St Maarten Airport

During the 3 hours you will enjoy no fewer than 30 flights with spectacular scenery on the way, a company and cockpit presentation, an external walkaround & much more including aircraft action from St Barth and from the famous St Maarten!

 


Comments

Cinch up your seatbelts for this one folks! Some real "Seat of the pants" visual flight rules stuff by pilots who are no "Systems Managers". Even the approaches to large runways are low and tight. Great bonus footage of the St Maarten Airport. I think I know where I'm going on my next trip!
John Streiter, USA

What impressed me the most was the quality of the multi channel sound track especiallay with a headset: you are in the cockpit! I know the DeHavilland TwinOtter very much, this is life like. Great service, great products, you just made a new customer very happy and we hope to do more business with you in a near future.    Pascal, FRANCE

Congratulations and hats off to the WAR team for producing one outstanding program on Winair and their Twin Otter operations with St Maarten and the vicinity. I was extremely inpressed with the scenery and camera perspectives of this program. Our flights into Saba Island were like landing at taking off on an aircraft carrier minus the arrestor cables. Our flights into St. Barth were a real rush where it felt you literally were nose diving in there, avoiding the highways by a very small height and then flaring all of a sudden for a nice landing into that airport. This type of flying is like Bush-style in the Caribbean. These pilots must love the environment in which they are flying out of. I think I would love to fly for an airline like this one day. The tour of the hotel, its facilities and the best place to rent a car were much appreciated for someone like myself who plans on vacationing in St. Maarten hopefully in the near future. Also, it was very nice to show viewers some heavy metal action that comes into and departs from Princess Juliana, a truly unique airport. They must have wanted to put a jet blast deflector there for years but due to the close proximity of the runway and the beach, this was probably not possible as aircraft want to have as much available runway as possible when operating into and out of the airport. We also got nice walkarounds of the Twin Otter and a good cockpit description within the program. Lots of flights with many takeoffs and landings also make this video an enjoying one to watch. This DVD is now in my Top 5-10 favourites in the WAR series. Congratulations again on one outstanding program.   Jeff Schapira, CANADA

By far the most exciting DVD of my collection. The St Barths & Juliana Approaches and SABA scared the hell out of me and I have already tried these approaches on my FS2004 Flight Simulator. The pilots must have a lot of courage or just stupid to want to fly into such small places SABA. Very professional indeed. Cheers WorldAirRoutes
EJL Edwards, UK

OUTSTANDING! In this DVD there's everything I was looking for: the spectacular landings at St. Barth's island and Saba, the touchdown of big liners at St. Marteen intl. airport, the wondeful scenery of the Caraibbean! It's a dream! If you are also a Flight Simulator fan, you can try all the trips and understand how hard is to land on those airports. Congratulations!  Francesco Gradozzi, ITALY

I am very fond of the Twin Otter and I really love the Winair flights around St Maarten and St Barths. I have just installed more accurate scenery for St Barths on my Flight Simulator 2004 and have been reenacting some of the hairy landings. I want to go to St Maarten now just for airliners landing and local hops to the crazy STOL runways in the area. The sound is great on all the dvds and I have my neighbours complaining about my droning subwoofer. I pop on my headphones and I might as well be flying with these guys and gals.   Kimberly Edwin, USA

Just a spectacular DVD. It is the first justplanes DVD that I have ever viewed and I was pretty impressed.
Jon Joseph, USA

Thank you for another fantastic DVD! After a steady diet (in real life) of mega airports and mega airplanes, I really enjoyed the Twin Otter and the small Caribbean airports. They bring you back to basics! Keep up the good work.
Gianfranco Galanzi, ITALY

Hello Just Planes Crew, thank you very much for this fantastic DVD! I stayed in Anguilla last summer and on the approach to Anguilla i could clearly see my hotel from the air! The approaches into St. Barth are amazing!!! I have a lot of Just Planes DVD's, but this one is my number one now because of the sweet memories of my caribbean trip.

Thomas Eisenbach, GERMANY

It is a very nice DVD and brought back lots of memories. My dad used to be training captain for that company about 15 years ago and he will be pleased to see this DVD once I give it to him as a gift for Fathers day. Thanks for a wonderfull DVD!!   Gabriel Richards, ARUBA

I must congratulate you all on another excellent dvd!
Colin Acton, UK

Absolutely breathtaking. Landscapes are marvellous and the landings and departures at Saba and St Barth..... wow !!! The multiple angles of view, the air to air views, the "actions from St Marteen and St Barth", the quality of the video are really fantastic. Carribean isles are synonym of Sea, Sex and Sun and in this Justplane's title you find all of them .... yes ALL of them !    Patrick Bantzhaff, FRANCE

A fascinating DVD with unbeatable scenery! I was so excited watching it I nearly had a heart attack! The landings at St. Barth are simply amazing and my praise goes to the pilots who have to land there. Then Saba with the 1000ft runway. When the Twotter takes off it rotates at the very end where the cliff starts, and when it lands it only just manages to stop in time. Then there's St Maarten which is simply staggering. It was nice to have a chapter with action from there and seeing the jumbos coming in. I'm going to start saving up now so I can visit there - definately a planespotter's heaven. Some people might complain and say there is not much cockpit action but it's mostly scenery. I say, when you're flying around scenery as beautiful as this, who needs to see the cockpit! Cabin views are definately much better. Cheers Just Planes, this is a classic.
Hywel Phillips, UK

I must say, I've only watched 4 segments and its already the best DVD you've done. the action at TNCM is CLASSIC! even my wife says that a vacation there would do us both good. she would have the beach...and me, my planespotting! that is....until she saw the jet blast from the 747 on takeoff!!! then there's the 2 approaches I watched........
St Bartholemy..... that's better than some of the roller-coasters I've been on! that is some seriously crazy stuff. cars just below you, that angle of approach, the mad flare to landing! wow!
Saba.......geez-o-man! I had heard about the shortness of the runway there, but you really don't get a good feel for it until your on short final... that is a SHORT runway....and if you go too long....its off the deck! and all this in the beautiful little Twotter! I'm looking forward to sitting down and checking out the rest of the DVD. Either way, in my opinion this one tops em all already.    Chris Jacobs, USA

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Flight Information
A/C Reg Flight Route Flt Time Destinations
Twin Otter PJ-WIH WM 603 SXM-SBH 0h10

SXM St Maarten, NETH. ANTILLES

SBH St Barth, GUADELOUPE

Twin Otter PJ-WIH WM 603 SBH-SXM 0h11

SBH St Barth, GUADELOUPE

SXM St Maarten, NETH. ANTILLES

Twin Otter PJ-WIH WM 405 SXM-EUX 0h18

SXM St Maarten, NETH. ANTILLES

EUX St Eustatius, NETH. ANTILLES

Twin Otter PJ-WIH WM 405 EUX-SAB 0h12

EUX St Eustatius, NETH. ANTILLES

SAB Saba Island, NETH. ANTILLES

Twin Otter PJ-WIH WM 405 SAB-SXM 0h12

SAB Saba Island, NETH. ANTILLES

SXM St Maarten, NETH. ANTILLES

Twin Otter PJ-WIH WM 609

SXM-AXA

0h07

SXM St Maarten, NETH. ANTILLES

AXA Anguilla, ANGUILLA

Twin Otter PJ-WIH WM 609

AXA-SBH

0h12

AXA Anguilla, ANGUILLA

SBH St Barth, GUADELOUPE

Twin Otter PJ-WIH WM 609

SBH-SXM

0h13

SBH St Barth, GUADELOUPE

SXM St Maarten, NETH. ANTILLES

Twin Otter PJ-WIH WM 813 SXM-SKB 0h26

SXM St Maarten, NETH. ANTILLES

SKB St Kitts, ST KITTS & NEVIS

Twin Otter PJ-WIH WM 813 SKB-NEV 0h10

SKB St Kitts, ST KITTS & NEVIS

NEV Nevis, ST KITTS & NEVIS

Twin Otter PJ-WIH WM 813 NEV-SXM 0h29

NEV Nevis, ST KITTS & NEVIS

SXM St Maarten, NETH. ANTILLES

Twin Otter PJ-WIM WM 215 SXM-SBH 0h09

SXM St Maarten, NETH. ANTILLES

SBH St Barth, GUADELOUPE

Twin Otter PJ-WIM WM 215 SBH-SXM 0h10

SBH St Barth, GUADELOUPE

SXM St Maarten, NETH. ANTILLES

Twin Otter PJ-WIH WM 813 SXM-SKB 0h27

SXM St Maarten, NETH. ANTILLES

SKB St Kitts, ST KITTS & NEVIS

Twin Otter PJ-WIH WM 813 SKB-NEV 0h06

SKB St Kitts, ST KITTS & NEVIS

NEV Nevis, ST KITTS & NEVIS

Twin Otter PJ-WIH WM 813 NEV-SXM 0h25

NEV Nevis, ST KITTS & NEVIS

SXM St Maarten, NETH. ANTILLES

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Reviews

The Winair DVD perhaps needs no introduction. Anyone who is a true aviation enthusiast is well aware of this little airline and this proves true in that this DVD has been sold out for quite sometime. The Winair DVD starts off with an introduction from the director of the company who provides some background on the airline and outlines its current (at that time) operations.

This DVD has recordings of many flight sectors. The first takes us from St.Maarten to St.Barth with Capt Hodge who is well known at Winair. The landings into St.Barth are nothing short of breathtaking and I literally mean BREATHTAKING. Many who have flown on this flight describe it was a rush as you dive over a hill skimming over cars and people down to the runway. This not only displays the skill of these pilots but it also shows how remarkable the Twin Otter really is. Winair is the first airline to ever cycle out a Twin Otter and after watching this DVD you will see why!

The segment of this video which undoubtedly is the most captivating is the takeoffs and landings at Saba airport. The runway is only 1300ft long and on either end is a drop straight into the ocean. A friend of mine who flies for Winair describes the flying at Winair was the most fun he has had in his life. This fact shines through in this DVD as you can really see that the pilots enjoy what they do.

Other portions of this DVD that are of interest is the footage that highlights the Twin Otter in action at St.Barth and St.Maarten. Also you will find a detailed cockpit presentation of the Twin Otter along with breathtaking clips from the island of St.Maarten and Princess Juliana from the famous Maho Beach which is directly under the final approach path.

As I mentioned before this DVD was sold out for quite sometime (a few years if I am correct) and I don’t think I need to say that this is definitely a collectors item and a must have for aviation enthusiasts. Since this DVD was released, Winair has changed their livery and has added more interesting destinations; it would be great if the team at Just Planes would revisit this airline for an updated DVD presentation of its operation today.

I’m thankful to the team at Just Planes who did a DVD presentation on this airline. I live in the Caribbean and I have always heard of the fun flying over at Winair but finally for those of us who cannot experience it in person, we can now enjoy the sun and fun of Caribbean flying from our living rooms.

In conclusion, I would like to say that the $30 that you will pay for these DVD’s really translates to buying a priceless experience, it is definitely worth every penny!

Reviewed by AvSim