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FEATURED: Pedro Paulet and the Peruvian rocket plane
Note: I spend time both in the US and in Peru. Stuart at en Peru published a fascinating post about Pedro Paulet and the Peruvian rocket plane. Here are a couple of excerpts: “Little is it known that...
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Another plane crash over the Nazca lines in Peru
Note: when I’m not in the US or flying somewhere, my “second home” is in Cusco, Peru. 4 British tourists and 2 Peruvian pilots were killed Saturday in a light airplane crash in the vicinity of the...
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Lib Mandy Metropolitano – SPLX airport
I’ve been doing a little flying in Peru lately. In Peru there isn’t much general or business aviation, but the airlines are doing very well at the moment. There are a lot of airfields in in the...
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Pisco Airport – SPSO
South of Lima, on Peru’s desert coast, is the town of Pisco, namesake of the famous Pisco Sour drink. Pisco is also the nearest alternate airport to Lima’s Jorge Chavez International Airport (SPIM)....
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Don’t land in the Pisco!
The other day I took my commercial pilot checkride with the Peruvian DGAC. The checkride was almost identical to the one I took nearly 20 years ago in the US, because the Peruvian DGAC uses boilerplate...
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Delivering the first airplane for USMP Ciencias Aeronáuticas
Alternate title: flying to South America by Cessna 172. Click to view slideshow. I delivered the first airplane for Universidad San Martin de Porres (USMP) last week. Universidad San Martin de Porres...
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One for the books
Do you have any remarks in your logbook about a certain airport, “don’t go back there?” Maybe fuel was expensive, service was bad, anything along those lines? Well I just added one of those airports to...
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