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Flight planning information, techniques and training materials - specifically useful for Canadians flying to the USA and the Bahamas.

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1	Cross Border Flying - How To Guide Jeff's How to guide for flying to the USA and Bahamas from Canada. Covers customs and border crossing procedures, long distance flight planning, US and Bahamas flight rules, procedures, maps and airspace. 300K. Update 2010-05-16: Starting June 30th, taxi instructions shall include specific runway crossing instructions. 1-800-WXBRIEF works now with Canadian cell phones.
2	Flying To The USA & Bahamas Lesley and Jeff's presentation January 2010 to COPA Flight 70 discussing how we fly to the USA and the Bahamas. Presented to: COPA Flight 70 Oshawa - Jan 2010 Kawartha Lakes Flying Club - Apr 2010 Interprovincial Air Tour (abreviated) - May 2010 RAA Scarborough/Markham - Jun 2010 Note that due to the photographs included, this is a 22 megabyte download. Updated 2010-06-23
3	First Flight to Buffalo Want to try out the cross border procedures ? Gain experience flying into a large airport ? This document provides guidance for a VFR flight from Oshawa to Buffalo and back to Buttonville. Covers eAPIS, tips on flying into KBUF, as well as sample radio calls. Updated 2010-06-03 200K
4	FAA - TFRs FAA - Graphical TFR list
5	FAA - Notams FAA PilotWeb is a site for looking up NOTAMs.
6	See and Avoid - US Special Use Airspace Defense Safety Oversight Council graphical site for military use of airspace.
7	FAA - Special Use Airspace US special use airspace mapped. Find out here when the MOA will be active, or where the TFRs are.
8	US Airport Facility Directory The US Airport/Facility Directory is the equivalent of our Canada Flight Supplement and is available digitally.
9	US Airport Taxi Diagrams The taxi diagrams are available for large airports in PDF format.
10	eAPIS Submit passenger manifests for arrival into or departure from the USA.
11	CBP Private Air APIS Guide Recently updated guide to filing eAPIS manifests, dicussing what information is required for each field.
12	Order your CBP Clearance Decal On-Line You need to purchase a decal to pay the user fee for customs clearance into the USA.
13	Runway Finder Maps of the USA, including weather. Switch among sectional, IFR, terrain, satelite image and road maps. Useful for planning long routes.
14	Sky Vector - on-line US Charts Current US aviation charts on-line. A great resource for planning US flights.
15	Golden Eagle Flight Planning Software While there are many choices available for flight planning software, Golden Eagle Flight Prep is one of the best free choices for planning long distance VFR flights. You need to call with your Canadian Pilot License information, since the web site sign up works for US licenses only.
16	US Aviation Fuel Prices 100LL.com is the site to monitor aviation fuel prices and most US airports.
17	Runway Safety AOPA Air Safety Foundation web course on runway safety. Chapter three covers airport signs and pavement markings.
18	Operations at Towered Airports AOPA Air Safety Foundation publication on operations at towered airports. It covers procedures, signs etc.
19	Operations at Non-Towered Airports AOPA Air Safety Foundation publication on operations at non-towered airports.
20	NASA Air Safety Reporting System NASA encourages reporting of unintentional violations of aviation regulations. If you report your inadvertent error, penalties may not be imposed. Read for details.
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