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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Jul 4, 2008
Description:
I headed along the lake shore toward Sandusky and then turned directly across Lake Erie toward Pelee Island when my GPS said the ETE was 2:30. There were a lot of thunderstorms building west of the lake, but I was certain of clearing customs and flying on to Chatham, Ontario, well ahead of them.
Pelee Island airport was deserted. No customs. I phoned CANPASS and (probably because my cellphone was roaming there) held for about 25 minutes while someone got someone else to pick up a phone and tell me that they had me as a no-show at 2:30 two days earlier. Two friendly customs persons arrived about half an hour later and checked me in. I insisted that they look at my radio license (which isn't needed to fly in the US or in Canada, but which some loony US bureaucrat wants us to have if we fly our airplanes out of the USA).
'Oh,' they said. 'So that's what they look like.'
The thunderstorm was by then about 50 feet from the runway--give or take a few miles--so I was in the air before the customs people had cleared the parking lot.
I had a good tailwind all the way to Chatham (CNZ3) and got tied down at least five minutes before the rain started. Carol and her sister and brother-in-law arrived shortly afterward.
Date Taken:
Jul 4, 2008
Place Taken:
Chatham, Ontario, Canada
Owner:
Don Maxwell
File Name:
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