Back in November, I made my first cross-border flight to the US, when I flew myself down to Virginia for some work meetings. After a ton of planning and paperwork, the flight actually went much more easily than I expected, and it was a really pretty route down over the Appalachian Mountains into the airport at Winchester. The flight back was bumpy but nice, but I did get chastised by ATC - or so I thought. In retrospect, I don't think they were telling me to shut up - I think someone must have been making some stupid noises (meowing?) on the channel, and ATC was telling them to shut it, but at the time, I was afraid my radio was transmitting when it shouldn't and everyone was hearing me talk to myself.
The cross-border process is kind of involved, and there are a bunch of links here that may be helpful for anyone else planning a similar trip in either direction.
US ATC sticker from DTOPS: dtops.cbp.dhs....
CanPASS approval to expedite the crossing into Canada: www.cbsa-asfc....
eAPIS: eapis.cbp.dhs....
ADAPT ADS-B deviation for fellow Canadians looking for a temporary exemption to fly into class B/C airspace: www.faa.gov/ne...
And a few other things:
Just Plane Silly's video on meowing on the radio: • Do Pilots Really Meow ...
Music: Golden Empire, by The 126ers
5 сен 2024