Yet another bush flying adventure in Panama. This time we took our De Havilland Twin Otter (ICAO: DHC6) 400 for a ride. This is the same freeware a/c with glass cockpit that is not easy to read and many defects, you can’t set course or autopilot.
The flight plan estimated 18 minutes of flying (not true in real life) and 24 gallons. I loaded 100 gallons on the a/c. This a/c is well suited for this short take off strip in Cartí, San Blas which is an add-on made by me given this real life airstrip is not present in FSX.
Set my flaps, my feet on the brakes and set full throttle. Waited for it to spool up (short strip!) and off I went down runway 02 of Carti (IATA: CTE) with a sharp left turn heading 281 towards EGETA intersection on the beautiful San Blas Archipelago climbing to 6500’ for this VFR flight. EGETA is just 2 minutes flying, 6nm East North East of Cartí near El Porvenir airport in San Blas (also not available in FSX). Afterwards I turned left heading 240 for 34 nm to 
fly over Calzada Larga airport (see picture, FSX: MP23) near Madden Lake. Yesterday we “flew” nearby but north to south in our Mooney Bravo. We had Taboga VOR/DME (TBG 110.00) on NAV1 and Taboga NDB (311.00) on the ADF. Unfortunately this panel is flawed and there was no way to set the course or heading bug. But we had the DME so we reached Calzada Larga at 22nm from TBG.
And then we started our slow descent towards Marcos A. Gelabert (ICAO: MPMG) runway 18 as we did yesterday. On this picture we see the runway, the hill preceeding it and on the far left Ancon Hill. There are many landmarks missing there… We landed right on the threshold in the center of the runway, nothing better than a good landing but I missed some challenging weather. We retracted flaps and taxied to the ramp in front of the terminal to let the 10 tourists get on their way to visit the beautiful city of Panama.
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