CROSS BORDER FLYING SEMINAR TEST ANSWERS
- What is an AOE? Airport of entry
- Where would you look for help with the eAPIS system? Select the arrow next to the box you are filing out, COPA AOPA eAPIS help
- How far in advance of your departure to the USA must you file with arrival report with eAPIS? Departure back to Canada? 1 hour before departure
- After having submitted your manifest, what do you do if; (See CBP Private Air APIS Guide V2 P18)
a) One of your passengers decides not to go? Nothing
b) If you add a new passenger? Resubmit the manifest
c) If you cancel the flight? Nothing
d) Change the AOE? Call the AOE to submit the change
e) You lost the keys for the airplanes and had to depart 45 minutes later than planned?
Call customs at your AOE to inform of the new arrival time.
- Do you need to file both a Notice of Arrival and Departure with eAPIS? Yes
- How close to your posted arrival time must you be when
a) Arriving at the US AOE? + - 15 minutes
b) Arriving at Canadian Customs? + - 30 minutes
- Having departed Bellingham to CZBB VFR, over Peace Arch Park you check the CZBB ATIS to find the airport closed. Where do you land? At the closest/convenient customs airport. Engine failure?
- What telephone number do you use to files a flight plan if you are:
a) In Canada flying into the USA? 1–866–wx brief (1-866-992-7433) or 1-866-541-4101
b) In the USA flying into Canada? 1–800–wx brief (1-800-992-7433) or 1-877-484-2799 or 1-250-363-0222
- How far in advance of your arrival to Canada do you need to call Canadian customs to inform them of your intentions? Call 2 hours in advance of your arrival time
- What phone number would you use to contact Canadian customs when you are in the USA?
1-888-can pass (1-888-226-7277) or or 1-250-363-0222
- List the steps and phone numbers you would use to prepare for your departure to the USA?
a) File a Notice of Arrival and Departure with eAPIS 1 Hour before your planned departure time.
b) Call the US Customs AOE you plan to arrive at and inform them of the local time of your arrival. Ask for a badge number
c) File a flight plan with a CDN FSS. Anywhere in North America 1-866-541-4101 or 1–866–wx brief (1-866-992-7433)
- List the steps and phone numbers you would use to prepare for your return to Canada?
a) Is your Notice of and Departure correct? If the times or passengers have changed make the changes with eAPIS 1 Hour before your planned departure time (See CBP Private Air APIS Guide V2 P18)
b) Call the CBP and inform them of the local time of your departure?????????
c) Call the Canadian Customs and inform them of the local time of your arrival. 1-800-can pass (1-800-226-7277). Ask for the badge number.
d) File a flight plan with an American FSS. 1–800–wx brief (1-800-992-7433)
- After takeoff call 122.0 (Seattle, if local, is 122.3) and ask;
a) To have your flight plan opened.
b) For a cross border transponder code.
c) Flight following
d) On your arrival call CAN Pass to tell them you are on the ground, get an arrivals report number if they aren’t coming out to inspect. 1-888-can pass (1-888-226-7277) or 1-250-363-0222
e) Write the arrivals report number in your logbook and or the airplanes logbook.
- If you listen to the voice portion of an American Navoid what will you hear? .-- .. -. and SIGMETS AND AIRMETS relevant to 150 nm Win a T-Shirt
- What station is flight following on? 122.0
- If you are ahead or your arrival time what should you do? Slow down, circle
- Do you need a radio license to fly in the USA? Yes
- As a pilot, do you need two pieces of Identification to file with eAPIS? Yes, a passport (unless American citizen) and Pilots License.
- For passengers do they need two pieces of identification to file with eAPIS? No. But, if you have an Alien Registration Card it must be the first piece of Id. For the second piece of Identification, if it isn’t listed in the pop down list don’t use it.
- If you, as father and son, fly over the border what documentation must you have? The child’s passport and a letter from the other parent (notarized) permitting the father to take the child over the border.
- Before your arrival at the USA customs what advice might you give your passengers?
a) Stay in the airplane until told you may leave.
b) Don’t make any dumb comments, smart remarks etc. to the CB officer.
c) Pleasure trip only you’re not going down to help build anything.
- For eAPIS do you need to supply a real address for the location you will be visiting? Yes and you can look it up on line or 411 Etc.
- While working with eAPIS what would happen if you left inputting the arrival procedure to go have dinner? eAPIS would lock you for inactivity and you would loose any information from the page you were working on.
- If you were in Arlington and had to update your eAPIS information do you have your User name and password? Write it down somewhere safe
- If you or someone you fly with uses the “CREW” input for your information, do you know what happens to it? It is saved within yours or whomever loged into eAPSI.
- What do you know about the “Friend” or “BROTHER” that joined your flight today? This could be a problem. You need to ask if they have a record, they are on the no fly list etc.
How could you prepare for entering information into eAPIS? Go online and print out the “CBP Private Air eAPIS Guide.