Departure: 07:35 AM
Routing: Northwest into Central Mexico
Aircraft: Pacific Island Q-200
Altitude: Various 8-11,000 feet
Miles: 755
Arrival Stats: 10:30 AM is 3 hours or 251 mph
Notes: Left Guatamala City under clear skies - amazing how close the hills are when you really look! Soon out of the mountains of Guatamal we were over the generally more flat terrain of Mexico ... still some hills up around 9-10,000 feet but a bit flatter.
130 miles to Comitan
186 miles to Minatitlan
221 miles to Poza Rica
218 miles to San Luis Potosi
I almost missed this vital bit of information: On finals I noticed that the R main gear light was red. 
Now why on earth would it do that? Looked fine from outside. I went missed ... cycled the gears a couple of times both from inside and from outside but always got the red light. Weird! Well, I didn't have a load of gas left but having done this a few years ago in a 767 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDS9TmVI9eY) I was confident I could do it in a Dash-8 too.
Now why on earth would it do that? Looked fine from outside. I went missed ... cycled the gears a couple of times both from inside and from outside but always got the red light. Weird! Well, I didn't have a load of gas left but having done this a few years ago in a 767 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDS9TmVI9eY) I was confident I could do it in a Dash-8 too. Watch the video to see what happened:
Wow! I even got the motors killed without bending the props - that was lucky!
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