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Hallo Freunde!

   I was recently flying into Princess Juliana Airport, St. Maarten in a CRJ series aircraft.  It was all jolly and well until I got my Approach vectors, ATC tried to ferry me across the island to approach and land on Runway 27,    Now as far as I know this isn't even a valid approach to the airport, as there is a nicely sized mountain right before the beginning of the runway.  I went ahead and tried this landing and failed miserably (the approach was a bit like trying to land at St.Barts).  So I researched this and turns out that TNCM always uses runway 9/10 regardless of weather conditions.
   My question: is there a way I can modify the airport to "close" runway 27/28 so that runway 9/10 is the only valid approach?


And another query: I frequently visit my hometowns airport, Lubbock.  This area is known for its crazy weather conditions and frequent wind storms.  But regardless of the weather conditions that atc always seems to set me up to land on runway 17, no matter if there is a 30 knot crosswind. (Mind you we have a perfectly good runway perpendicular to runway 17 [Runway 26]). So is there a way to "open" runway 26 for traffic?

Thanks for the answers mates!

Try removing the start location for runway 27, that sometimes does it.

How long is runway 26?  If not long enough for your plane (jets require something around 6500 ft), then ATC will use the other runway.  Also, if you have modified the runways at this airport (renamed, added, deleted, etc.) sometimes you'll only get one choice after that, for some odd reason.

Hope this helps,

I fly 737's and CRj-700's out of my hometown, The runway is indeed long enough (some 8000 ft so).

You could do it with ADE9X, but it does have a bit longer learning curve than AFCAD.

Hope this helps,

Hi,

Did you try asking ATC for different runway? The one you wanted, that might have worked.

AED9X is similar to Afcad, Afcad was easier to learn the basics than aed9x.


regards

Steve.

Hi,

Unless the runways are parallel (or made that way by the star runways technique) ATC will let you approach the other runway, but then gives a command "circle to land" on the original runway...