Fly New Mexico - Aerial Tours

Looking for great “Day Trip” or “Obscure and Scenic New Mexico” spot to visit?
Check out our collection of scenic flyways for your next journey into the Land of Enchantment. 
Want to contribute?  Members can upload PIREPs.

Day Trips

Selected “Day Trips”, by Lanny Tonning from the NMPA Newsletter.
Day Trips Document Folder

DayTrips - Pointing the Way
Day Trips - Unexpected Fun - Extra Courtesy at DRO
Day Trips - Bombs Away in The Wayback Machine
Day Trips - NorCal Two Day Trip
Day Trips - KEKA Cardinal Save
Day Trips - Winter Skies
Day Trips - Valle Grande
Day Trips - When you can't fly, read about flying!
Day Trips - LightHawk
Day Trips - Meteor Crater
Day Trips - Four Corners
Day Trips - B-52 Hill
Day Trips - NM First in the Nation
Day Trips - Triple A
Day Trips - Chama Diversion Project
Day Trips - US SW SOARING MUSEUM Moriarty

Treasure Hunts

Treasure hunts of aerial landmarks across New Mexico by Elizabeth Hunke of the Rio Grande 99's.  These can be solved from an airplane or at home on Google Earth.  If you have some interesting hunts from your corner of the state, we would like to add them to our collection.
 Treasure Hunts Document Folder

Treasure Hunt (2010)
Histaerical Treasure Hunt Rules (2012)
Histaerical Treasure Hunt (2012)

Obscure and Scenic New Mexico

A collection of out of the way, unusual places to visit from the air across New Mexico, by Jeff Gilkey, published in the NMPA Forum and Newsletter.  You can access the articles 2 ways.

Obscure and Scenic New Mexico Page

    1) Looking them up in our document library     Document Folder  
    2) Viewing place on a 2D Google Map                Google Map Page           

ZoomChat

During the dark days of COVID-19, Jeff Gilkey hosted a series of Zoom discussions about flying in New Mexico and the Southwest.  Many of the presentations feature expanded details of recent Obscure and Scenic NM columns with contributions from NMPA members or aviation related issues of the day.  As COVID restrictions lifted, our Zoom discussions faded away. 

These discussions contain a lot a good background information about fun places to fly in and around New Mexico.

Zoom Chat Document Folder 

001 Ancient Civilizations of New Mexico                                              002 Sunrise, Sunset and Night VFR 003 Rio Chama 004 Needles, Pinnacles, Towers, Monoliths, Spires and Chimneys 005 The Gila 006 Monument Valley 007 Abandoned Airfields of NM with Paul Freeman 008 NPS Aviation Program 009 Jaws of Death Canyon 010 Vents 011 Crow Spring Massacre 012 Sinkholes 013 Corduroy Canyon 014 Valle Vidal 015 Valle de la Grulla 016 Water World

017 Windy 018 Bonita Canyon & Paraglider Dashboard 019 Sawtooth Mountains & Glympse 020 Buckhorn Draw & Little Grand Canyon 021 Trevor Jacob 022 Boot Heel 023 Spaceport 024 High Winds 025 WW2 Targets & Organ Peaks National Monument 026 Mountainair and Billy the Kid 027 Manzano Mountains & Negrito Work Party 028 LBar Ranch & Gila Fly-in 029 Snake Bridge 030 Acoma Arch 031 Bluff, Utah

 

Wingman’s Log - Event Reports

Reports on places we've gone on past NMPA fly-outs, published by current and past NMPA Vice Presidents.  Member PIREPS are welcome!

Event Reports / Wingman's Log Document Folder

Negrito, NM
Negrito-2011
Russian Flat
Seeley Lake, MT
Spring Social 2011
The Wingman Log - Bar Ten Ranch at the Grand Canyon, AZ
Article Coming Out Of the Woods MARK SPENCER
Timberon, NM
Tutima
Negrito 2014 - Event Summary by Will Fox

Member PIREPS