Andrew Sarangan

On Jun 4, 3:09 pm, "Robert M. Gary" <N70...@> wrote:
> On Jun 1, 8:52 pm, Andrew Sarangan <asaran...@> wrote:
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> > I've made this flight many times before and never encountered this
> > before. I filed from my home airport (MGY) to PT(which is an NDB) to
> > CYKZ using DUATS. Everything went fine. When I called for my
> > clearance, they didn't have anything on me. So I departed VFR, and
> > tried calling again. Still no luck. They tried manually entering my
> > flight, but then said they had trouble entering my Canadian waypoint
> > and destination so I better call Flight Service. I filed with FSS and
> > called ATC again, but still ATC had nothing for me. I called FSS
> > again. Now he says his computer would not take CYKZ or PT, and the
> > only way he could do this is if I provided the lat/lon for these
> > places. After shuffling through a lot of mess, I found the co-
> > ordinates for CYKZ and read the numbers. I said forget the enroute
> > waypoint; I'll go direct. After nearly one hour after departure I
> > finally got my clearance. It was good time too because we were in IMC
> > not too long after that.
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> > I was totally puzzled by this. Since when did Canadian airports and
> > navaids disappear from US computers?
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> I've done this by filing an international flight plan. Is that what
> you are doing or are you trying to file an FAA IFR plan? The
> international is the long form that asks about ADF, VORs, etc
> installations.
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No, I filed an FAA flight plan using DUATS. It worked every single
time in the past. I have even filed FROM Canada to the US using DUATS
and it has always worked. This time, DUATS accepted it, but nothing
got transmitted to ATC. I am going to try again on my way back this
weekend. It could have been a temporary glitch.