May 20, 2010 To Resistencia, Argentina
I just got an email from Margi and Gerard saying that Wayne and his Bonanza are safely in Manaus after an almost seven hour flight. He has completed all the formalities and will depart for Barbados today; that will be about a six hour flight. He said the fuel price was much lower than last time, so he must have got the tax-fee price on departing Brazil.
I’m checking weather and everywhere has low IFR this morning. Only Resistencia shows some clearing for the afternoon. So, looks like that will be my port of entry into Argentina.
Well, I got everything done unusually fast at the airport and now have to wait two hours for Argentina to accept the flight plan. At least that’s what the officer told me it would take, so I set the departure time for noon. I’ll check the weather at the top of the next hour, then head downstairs for customs and immigration and head out to the plane.
Weather at the top of the hour hasn’t improved, so I’ll wait another hour for the next METAR report. Although….looking out the window, it’s improving here and Argentina is just across the river, a ten minute flight. I ask about changing the flight plan to Iguacu in Argentina and the officer says no problem. The weather checks out VFR on both sides, so off I go. All the way to customs and immigration, which take another hour. Finally I’m on the ramp pre-flighting.
As soon as I take off, I can see the vapor rising from the falls, luckily that’s the direction I’m traveling. I’m below the clouds VFR and get several pictures, see above, as I head towards the next airport. Wow, you just don’t get the same feel of the size from the ground. Several minutes later I’m on final and cleared to land.
I started the processing into Argentina with the plan to depart as soon as possible and get further south. Unfortunately, the processing took too long and departing became less probable with bad weather in the middle and evening arriving, so I took a hotel for the night. I think I got all the paperwork done so I can get an early start tomorrow. I’ve filed the flight plan for 7:30am. We’ll see what time I get off.
Practicing Spanish has been fun, but sometimes frustrating. At least I understand more than in Portuguese. Everyone was very helpful, even though it took a long time.
I just got an email from Margi and Gerard saying that Wayne and his Bonanza are safely in Manaus after an almost seven hour flight. He has completed all the formalities and will depart for Barbados today; that will be about a six hour flight. He said the fuel price was much lower than last time, so he must have got the tax-fee price on departing Brazil.
I’m checking weather and everywhere has low IFR this morning. Only Resistencia shows some clearing for the afternoon. So, looks like that will be my port of entry into Argentina.
Well, I got everything done unusually fast at the airport and now have to wait two hours for Argentina to accept the flight plan. At least that’s what the officer told me it would take, so I set the departure time for noon. I’ll check the weather at the top of the next hour, then head downstairs for customs and immigration and head out to the plane.
Weather at the top of the hour hasn’t improved, so I’ll wait another hour for the next METAR report. Although….looking out the window, it’s improving here and Argentina is just across the river, a ten minute flight. I ask about changing the flight plan to Iguacu in Argentina and the officer says no problem. The weather checks out VFR on both sides, so off I go. All the way to customs and immigration, which take another hour. Finally I’m on the ramp pre-flighting.
As soon as I take off, I can see the vapor rising from the falls, luckily that’s the direction I’m traveling. I’m below the clouds VFR and get several pictures, see above, as I head towards the next airport. Wow, you just don’t get the same feel of the size from the ground. Several minutes later I’m on final and cleared to land.
I started the processing into Argentina with the plan to depart as soon as possible and get further south. Unfortunately, the processing took too long and departing became less probable with bad weather in the middle and evening arriving, so I took a hotel for the night. I think I got all the paperwork done so I can get an early start tomorrow. I’ve filed the flight plan for 7:30am. We’ll see what time I get off.
Practicing Spanish has been fun, but sometimes frustrating. At least I understand more than in Portuguese. Everyone was very helpful, even though it took a long time.
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