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Pilot DAR
26th Mar 2023, 08:17
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cuba-migrants-glider-florida-1.6791350
Quite an accomplishment in planning and piloting!
Smilin_Ed
26th Mar 2023, 18:59
:D:D:D:D
MechEngr
26th Mar 2023, 19:08
The Polaris company is likely to have a new ad campaign about escaping the pressures of daily life."Want to get away? Far, far, away?"
NOC40
26th Mar 2023, 21:01
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cuba-migrants-glider-florida-1.6791350
Quite an accomplishment in planning and piloting!
Maybe not? Probably under 2h cruise. And why land at an AIRPORT? You're surrounded by security and a great big fence! They could have landed anywhere!
RatherBeFlying
26th Mar 2023, 21:21
CBP will be writing them up for failing to file an eAPIS notification - and asking $25 for a customs sticker;)
Salute!
One reason to land at an airport has to do with international law requiring assylum seekers to claim assylum at first country they land at/reach. There also could be fine print that the point of entry must be a bonafide "port of entry".
With the currrent administraiton, who knows what the "rules" are?
I think they will do very well, considering the treatment of several million "immigrants" last two years that have "arrived".
Gums sends...
HOVIS
26th Mar 2023, 21:53
The 1951 Refugee Convention does not require a person to claim asylum in the first safe country they reach.
MechEngr
26th Mar 2023, 22:46
Maybe not? Probably under 2h cruise. And why land at an AIRPORT? You're surrounded by security and a great big fence! They could have landed anywhere!
It's America - an airport is a place with the fewest gun toting citizens.
Bksmithca
27th Mar 2023, 03:29
The 1951 Refugee Convention does not require a person to claim asylum in the first safe country they reach.Hovis, Canada and at US entered into a Safe Third Country Agreement. Might want to have a read first https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93United_States_Safe_Third_Country_Agreement
VolLibre
27th Mar 2023, 20:21
One can go 700km+ without the engine....
https://www.redbull.com/int-en/jonny-durand-hang-gliding-world-record-attempt
HOVIS
27th Mar 2023, 20:28
Hovis, Canada and at US entered into a Safe Third Country Agreement. Might want to have a read first https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93United_States_Safe_Third_Country_Agreement
That's not International law as you stated, it's just a bilateral agreement.
They'll get a tidy little sum for the rights to that story I bet.