Going fishing? Take a passport... (implications for aviation)

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With all the fuss over electronic notification and other customs issues related to private aircraft/border crossing, the following policy change at CBP could (if applied to aircraft) have monumental impact:

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When the 2008 charter season begins next month, U.S. citizens paying to fish on Lake Erie will have to bring either a passport or two other IDs if they plan to cross the northern border's invisible watery line.

When they get back to shore in the USA, they'll have to drive to a local government reporting station and pose for pictures. They won't be posing with their fish, but for Customs officers via a videophone connection.

Note that this applies if the boat even crosses the Canadian border, regardless of whether it actually puts to shore. The analogy for aircraft is Canadian overflight.

The camel's nose is beyond "under the tent" - and we're pretty close to having the backside inside, spreading the camel waste on the people within.
 
That's just silly. Next stop: Showing your passport on commercial flights to Alaska. After that, it'll be on trips between states. Craziness.
 
That's just silly. Next stop: Showing your passport on commercial flights to Alaska. After that, it'll be on trips between states. Craziness.
Well it is the feds responding to criticism that they have not secured the borders. So they are starting with the Canadian border because of all the drugs and illegal aliens that are streaming over it. [/sarcasm & disgust]
 

For which GPO overcharged the State Department - and then used the $100 million in profit to provide bonuses and trips to the staff. We passport holders paid for that.

Link to article

When the government's main printing agency booked $100 million in unexpected profit it went on a spending spree: large bonuses to top managers, trips to Paris and Las Vegas, and an official photo of the boss that cost $10,000.
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The spending comes as GPO recorded record profits of about $100 million over the past 16 months by selling blank passports produced by its printing and binding services to the State Department at more than twice the cost
 
For which GPO overcharged the State Department - and then used the $100 million in profit to provide bonuses and trips to the staff. We passport holders paid for that.

Link to article

Come on, Bill, who among us doesn't have a $10,000 photo of themself? I mean really.

;)
 
Over fligth will be interesting since some of the standard DTW DP's start due East over Ontario then turn on course after passing the Cleveland Class B.

Isn't there also and E/W high altitude route acroos Ontario also?

So all of those departures and arrivals will have to go through the International section and customs at DTW or some other airport right?
On the good side no more CRJ's in the winter to MYR :goofy:
 
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