I was looking at a Canadian Vancauver chart and found an airport called Clearwater that is about 120 nm north of Kamloops. Tried to find info on the net. Is there any data base anywhere that has this and other little airports of Canada. Also Gun Lake about 180 nm west of Kamloops. Cannot seem to find much. Is there an Air Nav for Canada?

Tim

qmdv wrote:I was looking at a Canadian Vancauver chart and found an airport called Clearwater that is about 120 nm north of Kamloops. Tried to find info on the net. Is there any data base anywhere that has this and other little airports of Canada. Also Gun Lake about 180 nm west of Kamloops. Cannot seem to find much. Is there an Air Nav for Canada?

Tim

Tim I have airports of Canada guide with airports ----- cost you a sandwich next time your at WHP -It's in my hanger down there .

Just found this site http://www.buyplanesforsale.com/canada/ ... lumbia/53/ not any airport info though. And Bill, the Canada Flight Supplement does not have the little grass strips even though they are on the chart.

Tim

Tim: I live about 30 km from Clearwater as the Skywagon flies, to the SW. I have not landed there but a friend says that there is an airport there and he thinks it is hardsurfaced. My Canadian Flight Supplement does not list this airport. The symbols on the Vancouver chart indicates "status unknown" and "abandoned"?

I can make some calls tomorrow and get more info if you like as a friend of a friend has a floatplane based there on the North Thompson River. Clearwater is about an hour drive from my house. Out of curiosity, what is the attraction??

The only time that I have flown to Canada was about 14 years ago to Campbell River in a Muskateer. I am looking for a good place to go this sumer in my 182B and was just looking at a few charts and spotted Clearwater. Saw it and wanted to get a bit of info on the net. Nothing that I could find.

If you want to get info on just about anyplace in USA there is much info to be found on the net. Galen Hanselman has written several books on flying to Idaho, Montana, and Utah. If you want to go to Mexico (done it three times) you join Baja Bush Pilots and they send you an airport guide. Get on their site and there is all sorts on info on the airports, the towns and what to do.

Maybe British Columbia is trying to keep their good places a secret from their friends south of their border. Clearwater is not a place that I have to know about it is that I was surprised that there is nothing about it or other out of the way places up there. Could not find any pilots association accept a float plane association and Canada's equivalent to AOPA.

Tim

Tim- You oughta get one of Rich Hobson's books, Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy, or Grass Beyond the Valley...or get the video. It's about Pan Phillips and Rich building the largest cattle ranch in North America right up there in the Anahim Valley near Quesnel. They had pack horses and would pack down to Bella Coola to visit Gump's camp, get supplies, etc. So, Pan Phillips grandson has a fishing lodge you can fly into Pan Phillips onTsetzi Lake, 53 North 125 West, http://www.geocities.com/panphillipsresort/. There are others at Tsunia, Chilko, Chaunigan, Nimpo. If you go west from there you can head down Butte Inlet, there's a grass strip on the south end of Cortez Island and you are about ten minutes from Campbell River. Bungee jumping in Nanaimo for a good time? Spend too much time up that way you will be wishin' you had floats. I haven't been up that way for awhile, but Ford can steer you around that neck of the woods, let you in on what you need to get in/out. Sometimes fuel is far between and requires a trip to Williams Lake. Frazier Valley is a route to the coast much like the Columbia Gorge on th WA/OR border. That would get you to the San Juan Island, where there are plenty of airstrips. You could plan a fun trip that you and the 182 would enjoy. Have fun.

I was hoping someone with more knowledge would jump in on this but it doesn't seem to be happening, so here is my best shot. First, Canada is larger than the USA and has a tenth of the people and most of them live within 50 miles of the border or so. Things we take for granted in the US is often not practical in Canada. There are several flight guides available in the US that show virtually all airports and low useage strips and with great detail info on facilities available. Not so in Canada. The Flight Supplement that is published by Nav Canada is the only printed info that I am aware of. Baja Bush Pilots is a great organization for flying into Mexico but much of their info on airports is from the Senterfitt era. I am quite knowledgeable about flying into Baja as I have been doing it since the early '80s. I am not familiar with the Hanselmann book but expect that it has current info. It would be a daunting task to try and duplicate these type of books in Canada, IMO.

I spent the summer of '05 on wheels in BC and tried to find strips that I could camp out of. I asked many of the local charter and private pilots for suggestions and came away with very few recommendations. I was bummed. Since then I have spent the summers on floats and the available options are limitless. The BC Floatplane Assoc does not provide any info on destinations. COPA, Canadian Owners and Pilots Assoc. has a link on their website for destinations but I have not found it of much use for me.

Now, depending on what you are trying to do, there are quite a few fly in type lodges that accomodate wheel planes. There are plenty of small airports with fuel in BC but getting around is more challenging than in the US in my opinion. I have found that personal contact, friends of friends, etc is your best bet. So, depending on your mission, things can vary greatly. Flying on the coast can have more weather considerations than flying inland.

Regardless of your reason for flying to BC, it is a beautiful place to visit. With a good attidude and a flexible schedule, I would say go for it.

Since moving to Canada, I have looked for airport information, but have not found much, nothing like is available in the US. You might try asking on the Super Cub site. Maybe Nimpo Cub, Ford? Get your ducks in a row if you plan on taking a gun in. Good luck. Steve

Is there anything like skyvector or airnav for Canada. I am not finding anything.

My Flight Prep tablet software people can not get an agreement with Canada to do sectional and enroute and plates. Sounds like Canada is protecting there maps for some reason???

Flight Prep has an agreement with Mexico.

The Garmin 430W Americas subscription has all the airports and approaches. It was spendy though $460.00 for 1 year.

Cheers

http://archive.copanational.org/PlacesToFly/index.php

Does this help?

RBM wrote:http://www.copanational.org/Placestofly.cfm

Does this help?

Yes it does. Thank you RBM.

If anybody has a link to online sectionals for BC I would be most appreciative.

Cheers

Here's a few things I found. It's not the equivalent of runwayfinder or shortfield that we want, but it might be useful to put on your netbook or FD tablet.

I found this Google Earth file that overlays all registered Canada airports. The data is from the NavCanada Canadian Flight Supplement.

- Index of VFR charts and coverage

- Airport diagrams

- Excel file of all Canada airports/aerodromes

Perhaps you can convince ChrisG at Shortfield.com to import the Canadian Flight Supplement data.

I've got some canadian strip data that I've been meaning to import into shortfield.com....i just seem to be busy with other stuff. I'll try to get to it this week.

Here is somthing http://www.plews.ca/Canada%20Airports/A ... umbia.html


Also kind of a neet site here http://www.ourairports.com/ punch the any airport button then enter a city and you see what happens.

Tim

I have an old British Columbia Aviation Council map showing Clearwater as abandoned emergency only.

Contact info for BCAC:

#303 5360 Airport Road South
Richmond, BC V7B 1B4

Map is a bit old, but maybe this would help.

Ooops new info:

http://www.bcaviationcouncil.org/

http://www.bcaviationcouncil.org/2009/1 ... ities-map/

Tom

This is a nice list. Cool also that you can sort on lattitude, also that you can click on the coordinates and choose a map source to see where the airport is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airports_in_British_Columbia

Andy

Hey guys, I''m just starting to work on a website to document BC's airports and back country strips. It will take quite some time to get it all up, but I plan on going live with some airstrips and airports in the fall of 2010.

If you know of any BC strips that are worth documenting, please email me at [email protected] I need all the help I can get on finding the out of the way strips that BC is full of.

Until now, BC pilots have been poorly served when it comes to airport and airstrip guides. I hope to change that over time as the http://www.bcbyair.com website builds out.

In the meantime, here's one: Hastings Field on North Pender Island. N48°46.99 W123°17.15

It's a private strip but the owner is happy to see anyone who is noise friendly land there. It's a one way with an uphill landing and dog leg at the end. You'd have to land way long to have to reach the dogleg portion. Takeoff is downhill and easy and the strip is nosewheel friendly. No go arounds on landing as there's a cliff at the far end of the strip. If you had a super cub, you'd probably make it over the cliff but I wouldn't bet on it in any regular GA airplane. It's a great spot, about 10 minutes walk to really good food. Search youtube for North Pender Island, there are a couple of videos of a C150 going in and out.

I am looking forward to your web site. I want to fly to BC this summer for some fishing. (nose wheel friendly).

This is all I have been able to come up with as far as BC airports are concerned.

http://www.plews.ca/Canada%20Airports/A ... umbia.html

and this. The more you zoom in the more airports show up.

http://www.ourairports.com/world.html#l ... 4,type=Map

I kind of like this cus you can log in and add airports and on your profile you can mark the places you have been to.

Tim:

Just for fun I called the Mounties in Clearwater. I've got a client there and I've been through there a million times on the road, and just wanted to know. There is an old Canfor strip (Canfor is a logging company) near Camp 2 Road and Musgrave Road. I asked the cop if there was an airstrip in town and he said "Mmm, nah, not really". I asked if there was a strip for small planes and he said "Yeah, small old Canfor dirtstrip". I don't know if you can land there or not, but its a small enought town that if you call the Mounties in Clearwater or Canfor (they're in Vavenby - Canadian Forest Products is the proper name) you'll probably find out.

Here's the google map:

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s ... 9&t=h&z=15

I'll tell you one thing - I like the Chilcotin, but the Thompson Nicola is great country as well, and mountain lakes are home to Kamloops trout - a sub species of Rainbow that get pretty big! Best on the fly

Rob: Good post and glad the investigation continues. I have a friend that lives in Kamloops that owns a Murphy Super Rebel and a R-22 helicopter and he has a friend that lives in Clearwater and owns a plane. I know that summers he keeps the plane on floats in a "backwater area" and I am not sure where in the winter it is located. I asked my friend about a possible airstrip in Clearwater and this is how he answered.

"Hi Ford, don’t know about the airstrip in Clearwater other than my buddy Sep whom you met, has a private strip there which you could use. Kind of tricky to find unless you know where it is. It is in Blackpool which is South of town on the flats."

So, unless you need this info quickly, I will wait till I return in the spring and will find out for sure what is availabel and probably will land there IF there is some place to land. To be continued.