Leg 22 TTPP - Port-of-Spain (Trinidad & Tobago) to SVCP - Carupano (Venezuela)
TTPP - Airport Info
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ICAO code: TTPP
Airport name: Piarco Airport
Location: Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago
Useful information
Airport elevation: 57'
Time zone: AT (UTC-4)
Lighted runways : Yes
Maximum runway length: 10 500'
Runway surface : Asphalt
Instrument approach (ILS, LOC, LDA, and SDF):
Rwy 10: ILS (VOR and NDB), heading: 102 degrees, localizer: 109.70
Rwy 28: NDB
Trinidad & Tobago Info
Tobago and its twin island, Trinidad, are the Caribbean's odd couple. 'Little sister' Tobago is relaxed, slow-paced and largely undeveloped. Trinidad is a densely populated, thriving island with a cosmopolitan population and strong regional influence.
It's famous for hosting the loudest and wildest Carnival in the Caribbean, whereas on Tobago the oceanside hotels are casual, the reefs are calm and protected and the beaches are good. Indulge both the laid-back and the energetic sides of your personality by spending time on both islands.
The islands' capital, Port of Spain is a bustling metropolitan hub of approximately 300,000 people. It's not the country's tourist centre by any means, since its attractions are limited to a few 19th-century colonial buildings and its hotels are geared toward business travellers rather than tourists. The pulse of the city is Independence Square - not really a square at all, but rather two long streets bordering a narrow pedestrian strip. At Independence Square you can pick up a taxi and find travel agents, banks and cheap eats.
The city is crowned by Queen's Park Savannah, once part of a sugar plantation and now a public park with a race track. Largely an expansive grassy field, the park itself is not particularly interesting but there are some sights along its perimeter. In the park's northwest corner there's a small rock garden with a lily pond and benches. Along its west side is the Magnificent Seven, a line of seven fancy colonial buildings, including Stollmeyer's Castle, built to resemble a Scottish castle complete with turrets.
SVCP - Airport Info
ICAO code: SVCP
Airport name: General Bermudez Airport
Location: Carupano Venezuela
Useful information
Airport elevation: 33'
Time zone: AT (UTC-4)
Lighted runways : No
Maximum runway length: 6570'
Runway surface : Asphalt
Instrument approach (ILS, LOC, LDA, and SDF):
None
Carupano Info
In the North of the Sucre State in Venezuela, between the peninsulas of Araya and Paria, is located the city of Carupano.
A city of happy and friendly people, Carupano was very important at the beginning of the century, as the exporting port of coffee and cocoa. Now it is an excellent departing point to visit Araya and Paria.
The colorful carnivals of Carupano, are probably the best in Venezuela.
Something very curious in this city is the House of Cable, where arrived the first submarine cable between Europe and America, joining the French city of Marseille with Carupano, back in the late XIX century. This house is today the headquarter of the Tomas Merle foundation and the Paria Project, two organizations that are trying to improve the region through a model where tourism, industry, nature and people can coexist with harmony.
It is in Carupano, where Simon Bolivar, the liberator of Venezuela, issued a decree ending slavery in 1814.
One of the most important squares in Carupano is Plaza Colon (Columbus Square). In fact, it is very close from there, in Macuro (Paria) where Christopher Columbus landed in the American continent for the first and only time, during his third trip. (In all the other trips he was only in islands).
Downloads
airport scenery of TTPP - trinv3.zip ( on
Avsim.com
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afcad for addon airport scenery of TTPP - afcad2_ttpp_rs.zip ( on
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airport scenery of TTPP - piarco_intl.zip ( on Avsim.com )
Trinidad landclass - ttpp.zip ( on Avsim.com )
Antilles 2004 (very good, lots of airports included) www.jg-laurent.com/index.php ?lang=en
SRTM LOD9 mesh for Venezuela - ven_srtm.zip ( on Avsim.com )
airport scenery of SVCP Carupano - car.zip ( on Flightsim.com )