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Posted By: Hal Brown
Date Posted: Nov 19, 2007
Description: As Diego and his friends put the SeaRey away, I wandered back out to the runway to confirm that it was as short as it looked from the air. It was. But it was a lot nicer in the cool light of early evening.

Date Taken: Nov 19, 2007
Place Taken: Monterrey, MX
Owner: Dan Nickens
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Category: 289, An Indirect Relocation
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Don Maxwell - Nov 20,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    Nice chocks.     
  
Kenneth Leonard - Nov 20,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    Those are the emergency arresting system for when you are landing long...     
  
Peter & Paula Schoenenberger - Nov 23,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    congratulations Dan. Great stuff. Reminds me to Baja California. How about the winds in the valleys? Any turbulences?<br />Cheers<br />Peter &amp; Paula<br />China<br />??     
  
Dan Nickens - Nov 23,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    I'm sure there can be wind and turbulence, Peter, but not when I was there.<br /><br />China? Have you found the SeaReys that were sold to China? What an adventure it would be flying around China in a SeaRey!     
  
Jeff Arnold - Nov 24,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    Dan, not sure if China would be the kind of adventure you would 'like'. I have done business in China over the years. They are amazed that we can get in our airplanes and go without receiving written government permission in advance. I also rode around China in a motorcycle side car. Every so often we would come across a check point with solders with automatic weapons. Very intimidating. My host would say a few words to them an in sort order everyone was laughing and having a great time. I speculate we were saved by derogatory jokes about 'round eyes' in the side car. Yes, China in a Searey sure would be an aventure.     
  
Dan Nickens - Nov 24,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    China in a side car must have been a great adventure, Jeff. Imagine the advantage of a SeaRey, however, flying right over the road blocks! A SeaRey factory demonstrator was shipped to China to start a business flying tourists on sight-seeing flights several years ago. The last time I checked the operation was still bogged down government red tape.     
  
Don Maxwell - Nov 24,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    We lived in China for a year, Jeff, and traveled extensively and independently. Never had any problems at all. One time a gate guard waved us away from a military installation, and another time when we wanted to camp at a lake the response was, 'We'll consider it.' Otherwise, we went where we wished to go. They do things somewhat differently there, of course, and it's a lot easier to find out what the rules are after you've broken one than before, but ordinary common sense is pretty much international.<br /><br />Flying independently in China, on the other hand, is no doubt more complicated than traveling by any other means, but I think that, with patience and persistence, it's possible. I've been looking for a good excuse (and financial backing) to try it. There's a lovely lake, Qinghai Hu, we visited once on the Tibetan plateau that I'd love to splash in. 10,500' MSL. Salty--but who'd care?!     
  
Kenneth Leonard - Nov 24,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    My Mother was raised in China during the 1920s and returned with my father after they retired for a long visit. Lots of good stories including traveling down the Yangtzi and Yalu rivers by boat for a couple of weeks.     


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