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PostPosted: Thu Aug 20, 2015 7:00 pm    Post subject: Flying to Cuba Reply with quote
I have been working with a friend (we coordinate our annual Caribbean flights together) on flying a GA airplane to Cuba. Well, we finally have all the U.S. documentation required to fly his Cirrus SR20 to Havana Cuba and today received Cuban landing permit to arrive on Sept 4th and return on Sept 7th. We will be the 1st U.S. registered Cirrus ever to land in Cuba. A senior representative from the Cuban Civil Aviation Authority might meet us upon arrival to talk about coordinating future GA trips from the U.S. to Cuba. We have also been asked by General Aviation News to document the trip for publishing in one of their editions.
 
I will be the PIC for the flights since my friend is not instrument rated and you can only fly IFR to Cuba. I have flown his airplane on many occasions, the last time was in December when I helped ferry it from the Dominican Republic to Miami. As of today, and barring an unforeseen mechanical issue, the only thing that might prevent this from happening would be very bad weather.
 
Some time after we get return I want to fly my KIS4 there and become the 1st U.S. registered experimental aircraft into Cuba. For now keep this fairly low key until it hits the news. And yes, my wife (Millie) will make the trip with us.
 
 

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 30, 2015 3:02 pm    Post subject: Flying to Cuba Reply with quote
FWIW, 2 Cirrus airplanes landed in Cuba yesterday from Key West beating us there by 6 days. I think they planned the trip right after my friend posted on the Cirrus Blog that we were headed there and they wanted to be the 1st to arrive. C'est la vie!
On another note, when the Cuban aviation representative meets us at the airport I will get information on several topics. Specifically about flying an experimental aircraft there, flying an LSA there, flying on a Sport Pilot license there and flying there if you are not instrument rated. I will try to explain that by providing some kind of method for these situations they open a significantly larger GA market than if they keep their Certified aircraft on IFR flight plan policy. Hopefully this is not an actual Cuban restriction but situations they just never had to consider until now.
I will try to post to this forum from Havana, but I am not sure we will have Internet access while there.
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[quote]I have been working with a friend (we coordinate our annual Caribbean flights together) on flying a GA airplane to Cuba. Well, we finally have all the U.S. documentation required to fly his Cirrus SR20 to Havana Cuba and today received Cuban landing permit to arrive on Sept 4th and return on Sept 7th. We will be the 1st U.S. registered Cirrus ever to land in Cuba. A senior representative from the Cuban Civil Aviation Authority might meet us upon arrival to talk about coordinating future GA trips from the U.S. to Cuba. We have also been asked by General Aviation News to document the trip for publishing in one of their editions.
 
I will be the PIC for the flights since my friend is not instrument rated and you can only fly IFR to Cuba. I have flown his airplane on many occasions, the last time was in December when I helped ferry it from the Dominican Republic to Miami. As of today, and barring an unforeseen mechanical issue, the only thing that might prevent this from happening would be very bad weather.
 
Some time after we get return I want to fly my KIS4 there and become the 1st U.S. registered experimental aircraft into Cuba. For now keep this fairly low key until it hits the news. And yes, my wife (Millie) will make the trip with us.
 
 

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 30, 2015 3:09 pm    Post subject: Flying to Cuba Reply with quote
Flying to Cuba sounds really cool.  Let us know what you find out

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 5:17 pm    Post subject: Flying to Cuba Reply with quote
Well we did it. We flew (N555GQ) from Key West to Havana on September 4th and returned on September 7th. It was quite the adventure. We just got home so I will work on a complete write up about the trip. In the mean time I have posted some photos about the trip. Eventually I will post a lot more.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1024498654248587.1073741835.100000653864290&type=1&l=0c01b609bf
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Galin Hernandez <galinhdz(at)gmail.com (galinhdz(at)gmail.com)> wrote:
[quote]FWIW, 2 Cirrus airplanes landed in Cuba yesterday from Key West beating us there by 6 days. I think they planned the trip right after my friend posted on the Cirrus Blog that we were headed there and they wanted to be the 1st to arrive. C'est la vie!
On another note, when the Cuban aviation representative meets us at the airport I will get information on several topics. Specifically about flying an experimental aircraft there, flying an LSA there, flying on a Sport Pilot license there and flying there if you are not instrument rated. I will try to explain that by providing some kind of method for these situations they open a significantly larger GA market than if they keep their Certified aircraft on IFR flight plan policy. Hopefully this is not an actual Cuban restriction but situations they just never had to consider until now.
I will try to post to this forum from Havana, but I am not sure we will have Internet access while there.
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 11:00 PM, Galin Hernandez <galinhdz(at)gmail.com (galinhdz(at)gmail.com)> wrote:
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I have been working with a friend (we coordinate our annual Caribbean flights together) on flying a GA airplane to Cuba. Well, we finally have all the U.S. documentation required to fly his Cirrus SR20 to Havana Cuba and today received Cuban landing permit to arrive on Sept 4th and return on Sept 7th. We will be the 1st U.S. registered Cirrus ever to land in Cuba. A senior representative from the Cuban Civil Aviation Authority might meet us upon arrival to talk about coordinating future GA trips from the U.S. to Cuba. We have also been asked by General Aviation News to document the trip for publishing in one of their editions.
 
I will be the PIC for the flights since my friend is not instrument rated and you can only fly IFR to Cuba. I have flown his airplane on many occasions, the last time was in December when I helped ferry it from the Dominican Republic to Miami. As of today, and barring an unforeseen mechanical issue, the only thing that might prevent this from happening would be very bad weather.
 
Some time after we get return I want to fly my KIS4 there and become the 1st U.S. registered experimental aircraft into Cuba. For now keep this fairly low key until it hits the news. And yes, my wife (Millie) will make the trip with us.
 
 

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 5:31 pm    Post subject: Flying to Cuba Reply with quote
Very Cool. Looking forward to your write up...

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Well we did it. We flew (N555GQ) from Key West to Havana on September 4th and returned on September 7th. It was quite the adventure. We just got home so I will work on a complete write up about the trip. In the mean time I have posted some photos about the trip. Eventually I will post a lot more.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1024498654248587.1073741835.100000653864290&type=1&l=0c01b609bf
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Galin Hernandez <galinhdz(at)gmail.com (galinhdz(at)gmail.com)> wrote:
[quote]FWIW, 2 Cirrus airplanes landed in Cuba yesterday from Key West beating us there by 6 days. I think they planned the trip right after my friend posted on the Cirrus Blog that we were headed there and they wanted to be the 1st to arrive. C'est la vie!
On another note, when the Cuban aviation representative meets us at the airport I will get information on several topics. Specifically about flying an experimental aircraft there, flying an LSA there, flying on a Sport Pilot license there and flying there if you are not instrument rated. I will try to explain that by providing some kind of method for these situations they open a significantly larger GA market than if they keep their Certified aircraft on IFR flight plan policy. Hopefully this is not an actual Cuban restriction but situations they just never had to consider until now.
I will try to post to this forum from Havana, but I am not sure we will have Internet access while there.
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 11:00 PM, Galin Hernandez <galinhdz(at)gmail.com (galinhdz(at)gmail.com)> wrote:
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I have been working with a friend (we coordinate our annual Caribbean flights together) on flying a GA airplane to Cuba. Well, we finally have all the U.S. documentation required to fly his Cirrus SR20 to Havana Cuba and today received Cuban landing permit to arrive on Sept 4th and return on Sept 7th. We will be the 1st U.S. registered Cirrus ever to land in Cuba. A senior representative from the Cuban Civil Aviation Authority might meet us upon arrival to talk about coordinating future GA trips from the U.S. to Cuba. We have also been asked by General Aviation News to document the trip for publishing in one of their editions.

I will be the PIC for the flights since my friend is not instrument rated and you can only fly IFR to Cuba. I have flown his airplane on many occasions, the last time was in December when I helped ferry it from the Dominican Republic to Miami. As of today, and barring an unforeseen mechanical issue, the only thing that might prevent this from happening would be very bad weather.
 
Some time after we get return I want to fly my KIS4 there and become the 1st U.S. registered experimental aircraft into Cuba. For now keep this fairly low key until it hits the news. And yes, my wife (Millie) will make the trip with us.



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