When the SUN IS SHINING, the food is great and the women are gorgeous !

A great break from the suffocating ways visitors are trying to get away from.


So there you are, that's when you know !

haha,
"The director of DGAC is in Jail" , you must be talking about my country's director, Honduras. He actually was not to be found for a while, till he gave himself up.

Ha ha.. This whole thread is hilarious!!! :D
It honestly makes me want to fly there to experience everything first hand.
Just out of curiosity, why did the director end up in jail?

Panama Jack, your 10 reasons are owesome !!

Had a laugh and a half reading all comments... Few more for the hat :

- You know your are in L.A. when you can catch the "futbol" game resutls on any ATC frequency (with a short comment on who played the best)
- Or when you can listen to the game on ADF !
- When the "mate" starts rolling right after Seat Belts signs come OFF !!

Keep 'em coming !

When you can sell some of your stuff(motorcycle...) to a controller on ground frequency.

When pilots report a "dead dog on the runway"

:} LOL- keep them coming


:)

When you realize that the same flight that you just made across Mexico City via the girlfriends house, in any city in the US or Europe would land you 50,000 noise complaints and a sanction from the local authority.

"haha, "The director of DGAC is in Jail" , you must be talking about my country's director, Honduras. He actually was not to be found for a while, till he gave himself up." Affirmative!

When 1 airline has more than 80% share in the domestic market!

When there are no monopolies and mergers commissions!

When 2 competing "local" companies have a gentlemanly agreement to not steal anymore pilots off each other and thus control salaries, and T&Cs.

Where you upgrade foreign FOs instead of the current FOs because its simply cheaper!

When yo do finally upgrade, they send you on an a no-frills, no-thrills, as cheap as posible initial rating in what turns out to be quite possibly the most important simulator of your professional career!

OW Out!

The Regulator forecasts a major regulatory update (which will bring significant improvements) and then . . . . nothing. :ugh:

You make visual contact with an airliner that doesn't show up on the TCAS. I guess they are saving the transponder.

If flying with a Spanish speaking FO.....NEVER allow them to speak Spanish to ATC unless you are also fluent.

If there is a rule.....it was meant to be broken.

When you show up for a 2 o'clock meeting, don't expect anyone else to be there.

Don't do the dirty deed with the boss' secretary. Well....at least not on a regular basis.:rolleyes:

Lima probably produces enough FA's from their Academies to supply all the worlds airlines. I thought it would be fun to interview potential candidates for a potential opening in our department.:D

When the job is terminated, do not expect to be paid any monies owed.:*

NEVER NEVER work for Lebanese Mexicans.

A Beechjet can fly from Toluca to Houston non stop with 6 pax.

" - When the "mate" starts rolling right after Seat Belts signs come OFF !!"

crjtestpilot seems like you've been flying in Argentina or Uruguay havent u?

I dont know about the rest of LA but you know you r in argentina also when told to hold for 30 minutes beeing nr 1 to land couse the controllers are on strike... when you are told to reduce your speed and make a few turns to give priority to "EL PLUNITA", when having to hold for 10 minutes overhead ushuaia VOR because some pilot is lying about his position and eta... :*

When reporting that a lonesome dog is walking peacefully on the runway and placidly the tower answer that it doesn t matter as the wind is 15kts from 330.

who knows...

When you ask the tower if the runway is wet, they say it's raining so hard they cannot see.

When you are 14 Nm out and asking port au prince tower if they are experiencing heavy rain in vicinity. They surely afirm no, but I still had to land my helo at about 9Nm away as vis was maybe 150 yards, ceiling 30yards and had so much water into my pitot static' system that no instrument was working anymore...

that was a heavy rain I am sure now! And maybe what they meant while saying no rain...

Thank you guys for this, I have tears of laughing! I'm cabin crew, now in the Middle East, but made me remember when I used to fly to Latin America from Spain (by the way,we also kiss, twice, to every single member in the crew -even if we are 20- although usually don't say "capi")

And of course, I guess it comes with the manual how "el capi" wants the coffee :)

When you find out that the man charging the landing fee is the same man who owns the cattle you just did a couple of "go arounds" to chase off the runway, but then you forgive him because he gives you a hammock and a cool lemonade to rest and tells you all these wild aviation stories as you wait for the passengers to show up:)

NEVER NEVER work for Lebanese Mexicans. <--- Aubrey, ex-TAESA by any chance?