Mexican Uncontrolled traffic pattern rules

[b350capt]

do be careful as well, as the pattern entry procedures may be closer to ICAO standard, not FAA standard. So you may find some problems if you do not fly the proper entry pattern if there happens to be someone else in the pattern. It is not uncommon to find the procedure to fly direct to the center of the airport then fly out to join the traffic pattern. This is also reccomended to signal taxis from the town, or to check the runway (low pass) for holes, livestock, people, cars, etc.

You can also hire a security guard to watch your aircraft through UVAvmex or Pegasus (although not sure if you can really trust those guys either, but at least you get a corporation backed financial recourse if something does happen).

Have fun, carry lots of American beer, cigarrettes, and cash. You would be wise to convert your dollars to pesos before you leave.

 

[YOMERO_FLY]

Some uncontrolled airports have the runways dug-up in order to keep drug traffickers from using them. Some of the others have soldiers based at the airpots, they will check paperwork and inspect the aircraft, you treat them well they will be good just be vigilant they may take something that's not theirs. As far as flight rules, just do as you do in the good old USA and all will be fine.

 

[svcta]

The following from the Avweb new letter. Be careful down there:

A pilot and his family were in their Cessna Stationair on Tuesday, preparing to take off from a dirt runway in Baja California, when they were forced at gunpoint to abandon the airplane, Bob Collins, president of the Aviation Crime Prevention Institute, told AVweb. "Three men jumped the fence, then three others in a Nissan Sentra pulled onto the runway, blocking it," Collins said. "One of them had a gun, and they broke a window in the airplane and forced the family out. They pushed the Sentra off to the side and torched it, then all six of them climbed into the airplane. There was baggage in there too, and it barely made it into the air," Collins said. ACPI had issued an alert recently that aircraft thefts are rising in the border region. "Mexican officials are seizing aircraft, so smugglers are out looking for new ones," he said

 

[oceandude]

bring some cash! LOL!