The routing onwards from Iguacu Falls ended up as a random thing: I was not getting any response from the Argentinian CAA to my application for the flight to Islas Malvinas (Falklands), it was raining cats and dogs in Buenos Aires - so I took the advice from Linda (fellow pilot from Cape Town Flying Club, who toured South America a year or so ago) and flew to Salta in the north west of Argentina. Which for the first time exposed me to the somewhat peculiar habits of Argentinian ATC... One of them is that they seem to prefer IFR flights - I was repeatedly instructed to use IFR flight levels even when formally filing a VFR flight plans. The trip from Iguacu to Salta was one of those - I filed VFR but was instructed to use airways (which partially took me into Paraguayan airspace) and FL100. No problem, but a bit weird... The picture is from the first part of the trip, flying back and forth over the large Paraná River which forms the border between Argentina and Paraguay. The landscape is generally flat, with a mixture of something like marsh-land and agriculture
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 01:44:01 +0000
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