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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.
....way less stressful if you start early.
then you need charts. foreflight has a $120 add-on for that.
Colyn
On Oct 22, 2011, at 4:14 PM, Danny Miller wrote:
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.
Danny Miller
N 38° 43' 25.7"
W 77° 30' 38.6"
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