Watched that flight unfold on the multiple Inreach / SPOT devices. According to the first report on OLC Magazin you were both American. Now corrected to: "the Australian/American team"
Had similar luck using a US "Malibu Grand Prix Racing Licence", essentially a toy, when traffic police stopped me in Locarno, Switzerland... Had to try, but he responded by demanding cash. Cazzo! Are the cards of equal value? One lets you drive a Wankel, the other is part of a Wankel. Odd that Los Estados Unidos doesn't make you have an ASIC. The area where airliners load and unload is marked with a red border. Outside the line of death it's just another airport. Jim -------------------------------------------- On Sat, 12/21/13, Morgan <discu...@sandercock.com> wrote: Subject: [Aus-soaring] ASICS are also useless overseas To: aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net Date: Saturday, December 21, 2013, 8:16 AM Just another data point for the ASIC debate: Earlier this month, I was flying with Jim Payne in Argentina. Late in the flight (ie. after more than 10 hours in the air) we spotted an opportunity to extend our OLC distance by landing at another airport further north along the Andes. Only some fast talking by our local interpreter and the manager of the airport we departed from saved us from spending a night in jail. I had my ASIC card with me, as it’s a useful official-looking thingy that sometimes fools the Argentinian police but this time they wanted to see our passports, to check that we had legally entered the country. This particular airport is about 50km from the border with Chile and is an international airport, notwithstanding their usual flight schedule is less than one flight per day. We had a lot of help from other people to email and fax copies of passports around and convince the police that we were legal. It took a few hours before we were permitted to leave the secure area of the airport. OLC details here: http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/gliding/flightinfo.html?dsId=3431356 Just short of 2000km, since we were instructed to land before the airport closed at 9pm. Now we fly everywhere with our passports – it’s on the checklist. The Argentine authorities always want to see pilot licences but they don’t ask for (the equivalent of) an ASIC if you have a licence. (We do see the airport workers wearing ASIC-like cards.) - Morgan -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
