Call your Congressman, this is a matter for Condi's State
Department. Tell Canada that you filed and since you had a
discrete squawk, there should be records of the radar tapes
that will show your aircraft and may indicate that it was on
a flight plan.


--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

--
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wrote in message
ups.com...
| This morning I received a letter from Transport Canada
informing me I
| am being fined $250 for not filing a flight plan. I had
flown from
| Minot, ND to Regina, Canada on July 30, 2005. I had
meticulously
| planned the flight using the AOPA webpage on the subject
(got all the
| radio station permits, customs decal, etc.). I am
absolutely sure that
| I had filed and activated a VFR flight plan for that
flight. I had a
| squawk code and was getting flight following, but when I
landed in
| Canada the FSS couldn't find my flight plan to close it.
I was
| informed of the investigation by a phone call about a
month after the
| flight. Conveniently for Transport Canada, Minot ATC
erases their
| tapes after two weeks according to the manager of the
Minot FSS. I
| submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to
the Great
| Lakes Regional FSS as soon as I heard of the investigation
in September
| 2005. As expected, Great Lakes said they don't keep
records long
| enough to fill my request. BTW, they were terrible to
deal with. The
| FOIA woman never answers her phone and never returned any
of my calls.
| The only response from Great Lakes FSS was a letter in
February 2006
| saying they no longer had records for that time period.
|
| So, basically Canada says I didn't file a flight plan and
I don't have
| any way of proving that I did. Anybody have any ideas on
how to
| dispute this or had a similar experience? (AOPA Legal was
no help.
| Their only suggestion was the FOIA request.)
|
| Thanks,
| Bob
|