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I have made several improvements to the Density Altitude Tool. It now works many global airports around the world. I believe this is a very useful tool and you find it useful too. Enjoy!

Recently on a flight to Coban Guatemala tower requested to follow the Visual Departure Raymo procedure. I have tried to find the published departure since then with no success. One hint I was able to find were visual departures where … Continue reading →

The density altitude pages have been modified and improved. The MGGT Density Altitude graph looks better and the calculation should be more accurate. Now they also take humidity into account. The graph shows roughly the last 5 days. You won’t … Continue reading →

The saying goes “When flying from high to low, watch out below” and then there is a similar one for “When flying from hot to cold, watch out below”. The first one is pretty intuitive, but I was having trouble … Continue reading →

The trip to Quetzaltenango was long pending. Last time back on December we tried to land in Quetzaltenango the entire valley of Xela was filled with fog. This time around the METAR painted a more promising picture. After takeoff from … Continue reading →

As much as possible, I try to write about Guatemala specific topics. But this article is not bound to Guatemala. On a recent flight in the copilot seat, the magneto check showed a 300-400 RPM reduction on one side. We … Continue reading →

A round-trip video from Guatemala to Coban was added. Watch it on The video Gallery or on the Guatemala Skies Video Channel.

Very interesting visit at the installations of Guatemala´s Air Traffic Control. Every student pilot and flying pilot should have the opportunity to do this visit. Knowing what the controller sees helps tremendously. The aviation community here in Guatemala is relatively … Continue reading →

A Bonanza flight to Rio Dulce was added to the Video Gallery. I have also added a page explaining how get the US verification for your Guatemalan private pilot license. Have a clear week-end!

On the High Density Altitude Airports page you can follow the trend of Density Altitude for the two highest airports in Guatemala with available METAR information: Huehuetenango and Quetzaltenango. These graphs are automatically updated and always show the last 99 … Continue reading →