Expert: Howard Lorenz - 4/11/2009

Question
This is NOT intended to be a wasted of your time. We all know that a military man's personal/family life is also an important part of his life throughout his military career. With that said, I have been dating a C-130 pilot for a little over a year now and MY life has taken me to a move overseas to an island Roatan, Honduras. When I told him of this, he was quick to tell me that Honduras is a country that he is prohibited from going to, even on any personal leave.  He just got back from a 6 month deployment to Iraq & Afghanistan so I am finding it hard to believe that my little, quite safe, Caribbean island would be restricted.  My straight out question is: Are there countries that pilots in particular are restricted/prohibited from traveling to, and if so is Honduras one of those?  A life with this hard-working, intelligent man may not be in my future.  I am a financial advisor, been with my company for 10+ years, so please respond to me as an adult, not some 20-something who fell for a pilot! (as I see so many times!)   I have already asked local air force personnel this question (simply a neighbor of mine) and they have not heard of any restrictions, however the 2 men I asked were also not pilots or air crew.  

Thank you for your time.

Courtney

Answer
Courtney,

I think that he is misinformed about not being able to go to Honduras. I have a troop that his wife is from that country and he goes there every year to ever other year.

I can not speak for pilots, but Honduras is not a restricted area that I was aware of. Its too hard for me to speculate because I do not know his situation... Now he may be restricted from flying to Honduras by actually flying the plane or something, but again I do not know for sure... I cant see just air crew being restricted.. I wish you wel in Honduras, I have seen photos of the country and its spectacular!!


H