Rotor and Tailplane

I am awoken this morning by an earthquake, the building is shaking, the wardrobes are rocking all at 6:30 am. I set the alarm for 7:30. I roll over and go back to sleep, the walls were not crumbling! At the large airport we manage to get hold of someone to take us to the airport.  There was a little hassle with security and customs but nothing to bad, it was security who find our guide.  We filled out the flight plan, discussed the weather and confirmed that Honduras did not have any airspace out to sea near the Gulf of Fonseca.  We noticed that there was rain to the south of the gulf and by the Volcano Cosiguina.  The rain looked light and typical for this region for this time of day.  What was our charge for landing etc? it was a less than $20.  This probably made El Salvador one of our cheapest stops. So of to Managua, Nicaragua.  We wanted to remain outside of Honduras airspace so we stayed close to the coast having confirmed that Honduras did...

Our rush through Mexico ends with us leaving Tuxtla for Guatemala, we first have to get to Tuxtla.  Tuxtla is inland and over the hills, the first part of the flight was straight forward but as we neared closer to the hills we started to experience updrafts and down drafts, nothing to awkward but we had to find our way through the hills without having to climb to high in the high temperatures of Mexico.  As with the rest of Mexico everything was reasonably straight forward at Tuxtla, again we did not us an agent.  All the personnel were helpful, in the end even the immigration people were pleasant.  We did have to wait for immigration, but this was due to them being busy with a scheduled flight arriving and leaving from the main terminal. During our wait we looked at our route into Guatemala, more accurately we looked at our route out of Tuxtla.  Tuxtla is surrounded by restricted airspace with just a few corridors between them sized around 5nm wide.  Ta...