|
-
POSTING RULES

-
Donate yearly (please).
-
Advertise in here!
-
Today's Posts
|
Insert Pics
|

04-05-2019, 06:26 AM
|
 |
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: KPYM
Posts: 2,686
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bubblehead
A question on weather data.
Does XM Weather cover Canada?
|
Yes, but you have to buy that package.
Also, if you can go IFR... then do it. It makes the weird airspace thing a non-issue.
Don't forget to get your DTOPS sticker! I hear that they are running behind on getting them out. I ordered mine a week or two ago and it's not here yet.
Also look into the Flashpass app instead of doing eApis. It is available on smartphones now, not just the iPhones! It really simplifies the border crossings!
 CJ
__________________
RV-7 Flying - 1,200 Hours in 5 Years!
The experiment works!
TMX-IO-360, G3i ignition & G3X with VP-X
|

04-05-2019, 09:02 AM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 2,291
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by flyinga
I learned the hard way the when you file a VFR flight plan (required) and put down a departure time, they assume you departed at that time. You do not have to "open" a VFR flight plan like we do here. If you don't show up at your destination airport at your ETA plus a couple of hours, they start SAR. In other words, if you file a VFR flight plan and things change, notify their FSS folks.
|
THIS is a very important difference between Canada and the US.
Here in Canada we have lots of uninhabited areas, lots of open space, lots of places for an airplane to go down and never be found. It's all too common for a crash scene to be discovered years after the occurrence date.
With this in mind, in Canada, a VFR flight plan is a VITAL SAR tool. In the US it seems more of a "nice to have" - up here, it's often what makes the difference between being found and starving/freezing to death. When filing, and when flying, always keep this tidbit of info in mind.
Also, if you are overdue by as little as 30 minutes, Flight Service will start a communications search for you. They will call your cell phone number that you filed in the flight plan. They will call your airport of destination to see if you've arrived and just forgot to call FSS to close the flight plan. Then they'll call your alternate contacts to see if they know where you are. Believe me, your wife and kids don't want to receive this call.
The best example of this I've seen so far was on a fairly local flight of 130nm. Winds aloft were forecast to be less than 8 knots, while actual winds were closer to 35 knots. I arrived at destination 15 minutes late. As I was taxiing in the local FBO told me over the radio that FSS was looking for me and that I had better call them. I was only 15 minutes late and they were already looking for me. THAT's how seriously flight plans are taken here.
As an adjunct to the anecdote above, be aware that Canada is big. Flying along with flight following, you will frequently hear the Terminal controller say "Radar services terminated"... you've fallen off the edge of their radar. If you want to know the "next" radio frequency to use to contact the next controller, look up an airport near your route of travel and a few miles ahead of you. In the "COMM" section of the Canada Flight Supplement listing for that airport you will see a frequency listed there - sometimes shown as PAL, or TERM or DEP as well as the name of the controlling unit, like "Toronto Ctr" or Montreal Term". Dial up that frequency and see if you can raise them to establish flight following as you continue your journey.
|

04-06-2019, 12:28 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Vernon, British Columbia
Posts: 6
|
|
To add to the previous post by Canadian Joy. Something that can really help with Search & Rescue is frequent position reports to flight service, and use of a tracking device such as Spot or inReach. Both of these can significantly reduce the search area if you fail to arrive at your destination and close the flight plan. The Canadian Flight Supplement and Foreflight both have the appropriate frequencies to contact for various locations.
|

04-07-2019, 06:46 AM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Central IL
Posts: 5,516
|
|
A question . . my son lives in Bellingham, and wants to do an aerial tour of Vancouver island. The might be several day for flights and some will result in stopping and clearing customs etc. But, since BLM is so close, after getting all the paperwork straight, is it possible to do a flight from BLM up around the Island (or anywhere north of the border) and back to BLM without landing? Proper contact with authorities and inflight communications are assumed.
Does it present any difficulties if there is no landing in Canada?
__________________
Bill
RV-7
Lord Kelvin:
“I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about,
and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you
cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge
is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind.”
|

04-07-2019, 09:31 AM
|
 |
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Victoria, BC, Canada
Posts: 3,932
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by BillL
Does it present any difficulties if there is no landing in Canada?
|
Nope. People do it all the time, to fly up and around some of the mountains here in the lower mainland of BC.
Off the top of my head, you have to have a flight plan, be squawking a discrete code (no anonymous mode) and talking to ATC. Same rules as if a Canadian aircraft were flying down to the US for an overflight without landing.
Think about what you'd do if you had an emergency though, and what you'd want to have with you if you needed to land out somewhere. Passport, at a minimum.
__________________
Rob Prior
1996 RV-6 "Tweety" C-FRBP (formerly N196RV)
|

04-07-2019, 10:49 AM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Seattle
Posts: 58
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by BillL
A question . . Does it present any difficulties if there is no landing in Canada?
|
Flight Chops has a video were a group of aircraft did just this thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag281mEk-aU
__________________
Practice Kit completed 2/19/2017
Tooling up for -7 empennage build.(100% tooled 1/31/2018)!
Orphaned -7 empennage kit purchased! 9/15/2017
-7/8 Rudder 25% complete.
2019 Donation paid...
|

05-26-2019, 04:27 AM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2018
Location: Fort Davis, TX
Posts: 35
|
|
Can an exp fly into Canada without a std airworthiness certificate?
|

05-26-2019, 06:46 AM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Fredericksburg, Tx.
Posts: 320
|
|
Canada
Xm weather doesn?t work, I did get cloud cover from ADSB, and some high traffic. There wasn?t any low traffic. I forgot to say make sure you have phone coverage, I got mine for 4 cents a minute. Nav Canada has a good weather web site and Alaska has all the weather cams and they go as far as Watson Lake. My visibility was always at least 40 miles. I didn?t see any Canadien customs agent on my crossing.
__________________
T82 Fredericksburg,Tx.
Don't make easy hard!
Master Pilot Award
RV6A owner N6711
L19 sold
ATP/FE/CFI 10 Type Ratings.
|

05-26-2019, 06:58 AM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Fredericksburg, Tx.
Posts: 320
|
|
Weather
__________________
T82 Fredericksburg,Tx.
Don't make easy hard!
Master Pilot Award
RV6A owner N6711
L19 sold
ATP/FE/CFI 10 Type Ratings.
|

05-26-2019, 08:01 AM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Boise, ID
Posts: 1,007
|
|
Recent Experience
Just returned after another foray to Juneau, and this particularly sticks in my mind:
You absolutely must have cell coverage for border crossing operations. Make double-d***-sure your phone will work throughout your trip in Canada as well as the USA. The coverage maps may look good, but pitfalls exist in network usage. The principle need is reporting your arrival to CBPA (having previously arranged arrival - by phone) and establishing an appointment with CBP - by phone - to reenter the US. Canada simply doesn't have the critical aviation mass to fund staffed airports and FBOs at every podunk field - even larger ones. Finding a landline can be next to impossible especially on Sundays. This is all on top of web access for filing e-**** notices.
Related, refueling isn't as easy as the US. Make sure fuel can actually be purchased when you arrive. Self-serve is not nearly as widespread as the 48 and fueling from the only FBO might bump into bankers' hours. Again, a working cell is very important for nosing around. Don't let the four-spokes graphic make you complacent. My wanderings tend to be in BC and YK; maybe it's better in the eastward provinces.
What's really nice is Canada and Alaska FSS services. Alaska did not adopt the Lockheed FSS model. You can walk into an FSS, though they are not numerous, for a personal briefing and, most delightfully, when you ring them on the radio you get immediate "how can I help you" responses, not a reading of the FARs, 20 questions, and VFR not recommended. Canada (at least Pacific and Edmonton Radios) are the same. How nice to receive service instead of a lecture.
John Siebold
|
| Thread Tools |
Search this Thread |
|
|
|
| Display Modes |
Linear Mode
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -6. The time now is 08:34 AM.
|