Glider rides in Mexico?

[GARY BOGGS CFIG]

Are there any glider ride operations in Mexico? Where would a person
look to find the regs concerning soaring there, and what it would take
to do business there? Someone here must know.

Gary

[wby0...@aol.com]

I don't know but last Jan when I was in Marfa I gave a ride to a
fashion designer from NYC who was from Mexico. While aloft she told
me that her father used to fly tow planes in Mexico. She introduced
me to him after landing but he spoke no english and I no spanish so I
didn't learn any details beyond some towing gestures and vague
translations about his friends who flew gliders a lot. Let us know
what you learn Gary

Matt

[Frank Whiteley]

Mid-1990's I used to carry on an e-mail conversation with a Janus CM
owner in Mexico. At the time, I think he mentioned a group with about
ten sailplanes, but the details escape me. I'm told the DG-100 I
partnered in back in the 1980's was exported to Mexico.

Frank Whiteley

[mark...@aol.com]

As part of my daily summer WX brief, I always look at the satellite
images of Baja. It is commonly rocking down the dividing range in the
summer.

And I hear there are lots of snakes available to add levity to the
daily pilot briefing!

Go for it, Gary! I would love to come down and fly.

[GARY BOGGS CFIG]

Is this a referance to the snake I let go during the briefing in
Tonopah? That was fun, wasn't it!