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Old 26th Mar 2023, 08:17
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Cubans powered hanglider to Florida

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cuba-m...rida-1.6791350

Quite an accomplishment in planning and piloting!
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Good Show!!!!

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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?"
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Originally Posted by Pilot DAR
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cuba-m...rida-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!
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CBP will be writing them up for failing to file an eAPIS notification - and asking $25 for a customs sticker
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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".

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The 1951 Refugee Convention does not require a person to claim asylum in the first safe country they reach.
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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.
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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/Cana...ntry_Agreement
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One can go 700km+ without the engine....
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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/Cana...ntry_Agreement
That's not International law as you stated, it's just a bilateral agreement.
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They'll get a tidy little sum for the rights to that story I bet.
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