Guatemala´s small airfields Part I...or Bye Bye American Pie...Whatever!!!!
Guatemala, Land of the Mayas.......As a charter pilot you have been all over. Africa and Thailand as well as Nepal. For four years now you came to Guate!..and business is picking up. You landed a contract with a Mine Survey company---CA Mining and Realigning Co. Ltd.
Usually an engineer is sent to the western mountains and you pick her up ( This is an all women outfit!!!
......) in Quetzaltenango and fly to four very small airports: Guavito, Pueblo Viejo, Las Palmas and Los Palacios. The last one is quiete a Resort where many large hotels are full of tourists that come to admire the Mayan Temple of the Purple Leopard. Sorry to say you can´t afford the prices there so you usually return to Xelajú (Quetzaltenango) to your small apartment.....
..........................................but there are days where you double your fee (Contract Paragraph 6.9.0) since you have to go to the "worse landing areas this side of hell!!!"....these are just cleared areas where you simply stall in!!!!!! some even are Uphill!!!!!!.....many planes can be seen turned to wrecks around these "fields"....when the locals hear a plane coming in, the bets are on!!!!....."Good landing, Bye Bye American Pie, Cake and coffee tonight by a box!!!!!!....scary man, really scary!!!...but good dough for a better tomorrow!!!!!if you survive......:help::help:
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As you´ll can see Part I is one that will make Part II a "possible ..Don´t Show Man!!!", but since I almost finished Part I.....part II is "itching my fingers"......What do you fly around here????....well here is a list of aircraft seen in and around La Aurora Airport and Quetzaltenango.....Kodiaks, DH2´s, Super Cubs, Austers, DH6´s, Cessnas 182, some goofball 172´s (refurbished with some pretty hot engines) and others of various " small and sneaky fields planes".....
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Who fly around?......pilots like Loana Bleechy. Loana is 34 and has flown in Brazil since she was 18, she is a real woman and pilot all right....or Pedro Celas, a 61 year old Central America Pioneer of the air.....Juck Lipkoonsky, a Siberian giant who hardly fits in an airplane but has to his merit over 800 flights in Siberia where Polar Bears cry due to the cold!!!!.....and so forth and so on type of guys.......
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When you should see these scenery and Flights......Hummm, sooner than you think................I think.:hand::hand:
Guatemala, Land of the Mayas.......As a charter pilot you have been all over. Africa and Thailand as well as Nepal. For four years now you came to Guate!..and business is picking up. You landed a contract with a Mine Survey company---CA Mining and Realigning Co. Ltd.
Usually an engineer is sent to the western mountains and you pick her up ( This is an all women outfit!!!
......) in Quetzaltenango and fly to four very small airports: Guavito, Pueblo Viejo, Las Palmas and Los Palacios. The last one is quiete a Resort where many large hotels are full of tourists that come to admire the Mayan Temple of the Purple Leopard. Sorry to say you can´t afford the prices there so you usually return to Xelajú (Quetzaltenango) to your small apartment...............................................but there are days where you double your fee (Contract Paragraph 6.9.0) since you have to go to the "worse landing areas this side of hell!!!"....these are just cleared areas where you simply stall in!!!!!! some even are Uphill!!!!!!.....many planes can be seen turned to wrecks around these "fields"....when the locals hear a plane coming in, the bets are on!!!!....."Good landing, Bye Bye American Pie, Cake and coffee tonight by a box!!!!!!....scary man, really scary!!!...but good dough for a better tomorrow!!!!!if you survive......:help::help:
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As you´ll can see Part I is one that will make Part II a "possible ..Don´t Show Man!!!", but since I almost finished Part I.....part II is "itching my fingers"......What do you fly around here????....well here is a list of aircraft seen in and around La Aurora Airport and Quetzaltenango.....Kodiaks, DH2´s, Super Cubs, Austers, DH6´s, Cessnas 182, some goofball 172´s (refurbished with some pretty hot engines) and others of various " small and sneaky fields planes".....
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Who fly around?......pilots like Loana Bleechy. Loana is 34 and has flown in Brazil since she was 18, she is a real woman and pilot all right....or Pedro Celas, a 61 year old Central America Pioneer of the air.....Juck Lipkoonsky, a Siberian giant who hardly fits in an airplane but has to his merit over 800 flights in Siberia where Polar Bears cry due to the cold!!!!.....and so forth and so on type of guys.......
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When you should see these scenery and Flights......Hummm, sooner than you think................I think.:hand::hand:
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... keep up the great work