We regularly use Piney/Pine Creek, from Minnesota to Manitoba -
it's south & slightly east of Winnipeg. One paved strip. Card-operated
fuel (sometimes), washrooms, unicom, & Customs.
Another strip we have used is Whetstone/DelBonita from Montana
to Alberta - it's south and west of Lethbridge, just out of the
mountains. One 5,000 ft. E-W grass strip - no facilities, just Customs.
Has lots of prairie dog holes, and wire fences on both sides of the
runway - no fun in a crosswind !
There are a few others along the Alberta border, west of Whetstone,
like Sweetgrass/Coutts .... They are mostly grass strips with very
little traffic.
Learned of these places from Winnipeg ATC many years ago ...
back when Piney was just a grass farm field next to the highway.
Just another interesting novelty of aviation that one learns while
Rambling !! :-)
Are you going to come on this last Ramble ???
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On Tuesday 31 October 2006 11:56 am, Karl Wettlaufer wrote:
Bob where are the 5 runways that you can roll across the border
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Patterson" <beep@sympatico.ca>
To: <rebel-ramble@dcsol.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: [rebel-ramble] Rebel Ramble 07 web page
Hi Gord !
As I've often said, a transponder will be the LAST thing I
buy for my airplane ! (Much rather have a good GPS so <I> know
where I am - instead of a transponder, so <THEY> know where I am !)
We have managed to Ramble all these years without one, and expect
to continue. You DO need an exemption letter from the FAA - usually
because of insufficient (or none) electrical system. We usually
have ONE Rambler with a transponder, in which case we file as
a "flight of 12", or whatever, on ONE xponder code, & one flight
plan. We've also found at least 5 places where you can cross
without a flight plan ... because you don't FLY, you ROLL,
because the runways cross the border ! :-)
As Wayne says, we will ALL need passports !! :-(
One of the ideas of the Ramble was to show that it's still
possible to cross the country in something like a J-3 Cub,
like the old barnstormers, with just a clean windshield and
an Esso road map. (We HAVE had Ramblers use CAA TripTicks !)
We emphasize pilotage, rather than autopilots ! Not that
a nice AvMap colour moving map GPS is a bad thing !! ;-)
Have heard rumours of Owner Maintained class going to
Amateur Built - would be sensible, so may not happen ! ;-)
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