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Hello All, The webcam with view to the south of Guatemala City is live again! Every minute a new picture will be uploaded to Guatemala Skies. The camera has a new location. Special thanks to MJ, who allows the camera … Continue reading →

The hold short line is something all pilots are familiar with. Something we also vaguely remember for the ground school class with all other airport markings. In Guatemala we only get to see a subset of airport markings and the … Continue reading →

A new video was added to the Guatemala Skies Video Gallery. This video was taken in Iztapa and shows a Cessna 172 XP take-off from that private grass strip at close to full weight.

USA Today published a very tough article yesterday about how dangerous our hobby actually is… http://www.usatoday.com/longform/news/nation/2014/06/12/lies-coverups-mask-roots-small-aircraft-carnage-unfit-for-flight-part-1/10405323/ Here is a very interesting response that put things into perspective… http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-schweitzer/unfit-for-publication-how_b_5509253.html What do you think? Oscar

In an article on engine failure after takeoff at MGGT, theoretic calculations from the Cessna 172 POH were used. This numbers change with every airplane and pilot, so I decided to actually verify some the performance numbers, starting with how … Continue reading →

Flying from Guatemala to Nicaragua… I got lucky this week…I had to fly for work to Managua, Nicaragua. So I started planning my route, checking what it would take to fly there, asked around about tips: when to fly (early … Continue reading →

Flying around this area is great, however sometimes when you fly from La Aurora to the coast or to Rio Dulce or to Peten, the cockpit can become very HOT! ON many occasions I feel after landing that the only … Continue reading →

Last week I attended with some friends Sun and Fun in Florida. I will talk about our visit in another blog. I will talk here about our fuel stop in Cozumel. We flew in a nice Baron, everything looked great, … Continue reading →

We all count down the days to the date the avionics shop or mechanic told us that we will be getting back our bird from a repair (annual, check up etc.) or avionics upgrade. We call them periodically to ask … Continue reading →

As you may well understand (some of our significant others don’t…but nevermind) when Friday comes around we start making plans on where we could fly. May be Iztapa for a short breakfast and meet with other pilots, may be some … Continue reading →