Recent content by Shorrick Mk2

Tyrolean Airways used to fly Dash-7s in there. Like this...

B2 first saw action in Kosovo / Serbia (most noticed target - the Chinese embassy in Belgrade...), then Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya.

Again I have only good things to say about Atlas - my trip in their plane last year went absolutely as planned, with perfect support when we did hit a minor snag (dead battery). Re Turks and Caicos I remember the tech stop en route to Puerto Rico being fairly expensive in terms of fees O.o -...

1049s used TC from version C onwards.

There's a flying 1049 based in Switzerland :)

As others said, taking photos out of Pipers isn't really that complicated. This is Venice, from FL 080.

There is indeed a Bahamian AIP. To get hold of it you have to get in touch with the Bahamian aviation services unit (long, tedious, slow). I have managed after weeks of to and fro to eventually get a CD rom copy. PM for more.

Class B works exactly the same - no entry without clearance (sorry about that, Miami approach...ahem). Not a lot of difference in VFR charts, but I recommend getting familiar in advance with the ones you will use. One thing i found sorely missing was the VACs we use in Europe. Phraseology...

Pas de souci, je peux te briefer en français...(mais pas en vlaamse :D )

And as people said before, a more expensive ticket with a set return date that can be changed free of charge is perfectly acceptable for the CBP officers. I'll say it again if you didn't understand - your ticket WILL have a defined return date which you can change as opposed to having a...

It "should" - just as I "should" have had 85% of VFR weather in May in the Caribbean, and only had about 50%... But what if it isn't? Remember, one or two days of MVFR or IFR are enough to screw up your schedule. "Get-there-itis" in itself is bad enough - I don't know what your flight...

Okay - so following my Caribbean adventure I have a couple of questions. Flying in/out of San Juan Isla Grande TJIG, you have to transit to San Juan Int'l TJSJ C class airspace along a number of preset "transitions". Now, neither in the AF/D nor on the TAC could I find these transitions. I...

If you have the database that is... the GPS I had didn't have the Caribbean database.

Give it time... let's talk again once you'll walk through the brushes between the Club Med beach and the road :D Oh and don't miss fish fry on the beach in GHB. Great ambience. (actually our ride was a decrepit tan Chevy Malibu now that i think about it).

Not a tan Nissan perchance :) ? You can do the afternoon at the Club Med beach and then dine at Tippy's. Beware of mosquitoes - stock up on DEET (though at some point I was craving a canister of Agent Orange).