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We are thinking of heading up to Vancouver (from Seattle) in January. There is a lot of information I can find online when I head to an American city (primarily ForeFlight and AirNav), but I can't find anything about flying into Vancouver.

Can the Canadians help me out? Would you land at the main airport? (I am CANPASS, so I could probably land at a smaller one.) How do you select your FBOs when you are flying into someplace new?

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Re: Vancouver

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Hello, Colin, the Vancouver area is well positioned to receive IFR GA traffic, do some reading on CANPASS
Very easy, you still need to file EAPIS to leave the US, and return, I trust you are familiar with that process
In Vancouver the options are CZBB Boundaypry Bay and Langley or Abtsford, there is also Pit Meadows, I believe there is Diamond Service Center there.
I would say that the most expensive is CZBB, but it's also closer to Downtown Vancouver
In Canada very seldom Customs comes to meet you on arrival, unless they suspect that you may be a bad boy, they just give you a reference number.
For more questions email me directly at frank@startech.ca

You will enjoy flying into Canada

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Thanks, Frank. Great information to have. I also learned that while Airnav is letting me down north of the border, FltPlan,com has picked up some of the slack.
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Re: Vancouver

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Colin, are you regular Canpass, or GA Canpass? I know there's a difference.
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I think I am GA CANPASS. In August I flew from New Jersey up to Parry Sound and all I had to do when I landed was call and say hello. It was great. It makes our CBP seem barbaric.
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Re: Vancouver

Post by Lou »

It's a great system - I agree. One of my daughters goes to school in WA. When I picked her up to take her home, she didn't have Canpass so I had to clear at CYEG. That was an expensive 20 minutes. On the other hand I got to taxi between a bunch of USAF C-130s and some surveillance equiped DA-42s, so it was fun. :)

If have regular you can bypass the main customs line at commercial airports, but they won't let you use that for GA, and vice versa.
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