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FERRY FLIGHT
Hi, I am planning to ferry a Velocity SE in October from Florida down to Santiago, Chile over the period of a week or ideally less.. The aircraft will be "N" reg and I have a FAA CPL IR and about 1000 hours.
Our planned route down is Key West, Florida and across to Belize - Costa Rica - Panama - Peru - Chile. It is the first time I am flying a trip like that so any help concerning routes, procedures, overflights, airports, restrictions and dealing with officialdom would be really appreciated. Thanks! K. |
You won't find that information in the Australian forum.
Thread moved to the Caribbean and Latin American forum. |
You best contact each countries embassy as there are heavy restrictions down here flying cross border due to anti-narcotics issues. Simple if you do it regularly, but each border requires a seperate permit normally and you are coming a known drug smuggling route. I will ask some of the fixed wing guys in the hangar next door for you.
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Keep it simple. I highly advice you to use a handler/flight support company for this kind of ferry. They can take care of: -Your landing permits -Overflying permits -Ground handling -Fuel (100LL!? You won’t get that everywhere) -Parking -Flight Plan -Hotel booking -etc... You to pick what you want them to do according to your budget. Just don’t be cheap, it can save you a lot of hassle. And avoid Lima (SPJC) if you can. This place is not set up for general aviation (unless you have a very good handler) To give you an idea, pretty much everydody heading to or coming back from Antarctica is avoiding the place. |
Originally Posted by BlackWolf577c
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You best contact each countries embassy as there are heavy restrictions down here flying cross border due to anti-narcotics issues. Simple if you do it regularly, but each border requires a seperate permit normally and you are coming a known drug smuggling route. I will ask some of the fixed wing guys in the hangar next door for you.
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Originally Posted by ehwatezedoing
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Keep it simple. I highly advice you to use a handler/flight support company for this kind of ferry. They can take care of: -Your landing permits -Overflying permits -Ground handling -Fuel (100LL!? You won’t get that everywhere) -Parking -Flight Plan -Hotel booking -etc... You to pick what you want them to do according to your budget. Just don’t be cheap, it can save you a lot of hassle. And avoid Lima (SPJC) if you can. This place is not set up for general aviation (unless you have a very good handler) To give you an idea, pretty much everydody heading to or coming back from Antarctica is avoiding the place. |
Try contacting Sarah Rover, Full Throttle Aviation LLC (Ferry Pilot - FullThrottle Aviation LLC). She's got a bunch of experience with ferry flying, worldwide.
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Thanks will do!
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I have done US to Barbados VFR a couple of times, last in 2017.
No language issues which would be a problem in central America, for me anyway. A simple trip, normal flight plans, eapis and go; got to Barbados in four legs - total 13 hours on the Hobbs in a PA28-181 I would think flying the island route would be easier, down to Trinidad then West into Colombia - figure, fewer countries would make it easier. |
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