rene86mx
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Yesterday a did a cross-country from Mexico's City only GA airport to Morelia
I had the GoPro with me and decided to post some pics from the flight and document the flight
For context, my home field has an elevation of 8,300 ft. The runways is 4,200 ft long and is situated on top of a hill making it the Mexican Airport in the Sky or as the locals call it The Aircraft Carrier.
Recently there have been many fatal accidents. There's no place to land in case of an emergency.
Traffic in the field is 90% schools and some cool GA metal like Mooney Aclaims, TBM and one Citation
Backtracking to take off. We decided to use as much runway as possible. Very hazy morning with a 15C temperature
As you take off, nowhere to put it in case of emergencies
Immediately you are upon one of the world's most populated areas
Miles and miles of houses
Those familiar with Mexico City, know that it is located in a valley, even big commercial traffic has only one way out and one way in. In our case is an opening in the mountain range to the northwest of the city. From there you can easily reach Queretaro and the west of Mexico plains
While at cruise
Morelia is at a valley. This is just before starting the DME approach to RWY 23. It was my first time performing a DME Arc approach
Entering a long 14 mile final
Shorter final
Some mountain ranges before Morelia
I had the GoPro with me and decided to post some pics from the flight and document the flight
For context, my home field has an elevation of 8,300 ft. The runways is 4,200 ft long and is situated on top of a hill making it the Mexican Airport in the Sky or as the locals call it The Aircraft Carrier.
Recently there have been many fatal accidents. There's no place to land in case of an emergency.
Traffic in the field is 90% schools and some cool GA metal like Mooney Aclaims, TBM and one Citation
Backtracking to take off. We decided to use as much runway as possible. Very hazy morning with a 15C temperature
As you take off, nowhere to put it in case of emergencies
Immediately you are upon one of the world's most populated areas
Miles and miles of houses
Those familiar with Mexico City, know that it is located in a valley, even big commercial traffic has only one way out and one way in. In our case is an opening in the mountain range to the northwest of the city. From there you can easily reach Queretaro and the west of Mexico plains
While at cruise
Morelia is at a valley. This is just before starting the DME approach to RWY 23. It was my first time performing a DME Arc approach
Entering a long 14 mile final
Shorter final
Some mountain ranges before Morelia
