IFR to Mexico

[dpilot_citation]

Los Mochis Mexico

We have trip to Los Mochis in Feb ...any advice on this location.

Thank You!

 

[avpro91]

Our 135 Company is pretty small 12 A/C. When we do international trips to mexico, caribbean, and SA, we do all our own planning. Looking up the customs info and filing all our own flight plans and stuff, has always seemed to work out, and not to hard to get info on what each countries req.s are. Depending on where we go, we'll get a handler for when we get there. We routinely go to Haiti and the dominican rep. without a problem.

 

[avpro91]

Oh, and swerpipe is right. DON'T GO TO MEXICO WITHOUT MEXICAN INSURANCE!!!. They don't have any problems impounding your airplane and extorting you up the a$$ to get out of the country.

 

[Hawker rider]

mexico isn't a big deal at all!

We fly lears in and out of mexico all the time with freight and air ambulance, pax a little less, but nonetheless. We started out having a handler but that ends up just being a big cost that ou don't really need, nowadays we do everything ourself, just make sure that at anycustoms office you go to, take a few papers with you to have in your airplane, make copies if you just want a bunch of empty forms. We fill them out on the flight over there, and we plan the flight just like any other flight, look up the miles in the GPS, look at the high-chart and find some airways until you hit the US border,from there just /g direct.

I have hardly ever ran into problems in Mexico, and ABSOLUTELY never went any dinero out of pocket for services that I needed. And I won't either. I need to sa that I hardly speak spanish, but you'll catch on to what they are saying in front of you soon enough.

All in all, it seems that everywhere outside the USA The (local)aviation authority and customs seem to work very close together. As opposed to the US where the FAA and the customsservice have absolutely nothing in common with eachother.