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Subject: Be careful what you carry into Canada
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Colyn:

To John's point below, Canadians also have real problems with suppressed =
(silenced) weapons, fully automatic weapons, shoulder fired heat seeking =
missiles, tactical nuclear weapons, and biological weapons (like =
anthrax).

Be careful what you take with you.  The Canadians seem to have no sense =
of humor what-so-ever.

I'm frankly not sure how the average Canadian even goes to the store for =
bread and milk, armed with nothing more than a ripe colostomy bag to =
pummel a bad guy with if needed.

I think knives are illegal as well.  They have these special spoons to =
spread butter on toast.

John Hafen ;)


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On Oct 24, 2011, at 5:33 AM, John Schroeder wrote:

A radio licenses are not "practically" necessary. US and Canada have =
tacitly agreed not to check for them. This comes from my air tour leader =
for two trips to Alaska. With these two trips and two more to Canada, I =
would advise not to worry. The bigger worry is if you take a firearm =
into Canada. Lots of paperwork there and huge penalties if you slip up. =
Mace or pepper spray is also prohibited. They always refer to it as =
pepper spray.

Also, when declaring spirits, the correct answer is: for personal =
consumption. Customs in Canada are quite simple- a call before takeoff, =
answer their questions, fly, land, taxi to the customs area, call the =
toll free number again. More often than not, they will verify the =
previous info and give you a clearance number to show you have passed. =
You probably won't even have to shut down if your cell phone is rigged =
for Canada.

eAPIS is the most challenging. Setup your account on line and front load =
the info for the trip. You can declare the person who occupies the right =
front seat as crew, and that makes it easy to fill in the blanks for the =
flight clearance. Be sure to do a print screen of the email they send =
back and also of the final screen of the filing. I know of one case =
where they screwed up and accused the pilot of not filing. He had copies =
of the email and filing. Big fine if you screw up on this bureaucratic =
caper. Recently, they have put out the word that they will be enforcing =
more.

If you are not sure what to put in an ICAO flight plan, call their =
flight service and they will help you fill it in. If you stop for fuel =
at Ketchikan, AK, and then file for an airport in WA, you will not have =
to worry about CA customs or eAPIS. I would file IFR on this leg. Lots =
of beautiful scenery on this leg, but the airports are but much father =
apart. File for a higher altitude, like 9 or 10K.

Cheers,
John

On Oct 24, 2011, at 3:28 AM, Colyn Case <colyncase@earthlink.net> wrote:

> First step is to get through the paper work:
> airplane radio license
> pilot radio license
> eapis registration
> eapis flight plan.
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> ....way less stressful if you start early.
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> then you need charts.   foreflight has a $120 add-on for that.
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> Colyn
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> On Oct 22, 2011, at 4:14 PM, Danny Miller wrote:
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> My wife and I are considering a flight from Manassas, VA to Eagle =
River, AK
> to Portland, OR and back to VA sometime in the next 6-8 weeks in our
> LNC2-360.  I've never flown over Canada and know little or nothing =
about
> their airspace.  I know a few of you have done this so it seemed like =
a good
> place to ask for advice as my first step in researching this =
adventure.
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> Danny Miller
> N 38=B0 43' 25.7"
> W 77=B0 30' 38.6"
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