Instrument Flight Plan and International Airspace

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flyinghigh

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What are the requirements (flight plan, pilot, aircraft, etc) to fly IFR in international airspace, but not land? For example, at KDET, the IAF (Windsor VOR) is in Canadian airspace, but the airport is in the US. So part of the approach would be performed in international airspace. How would a flight like this be planned/performed.

http://204.108.4.16/d-tpp/1102/00118IL33.PDF
 
Normally in such scenarios there is a LOA (letter of aggrement), that permits an ATC from one country to communicate with aircraft in another country and use the airspace for approaches. We have the same thing in El Paso with Juarez- LOC 4 is mostly in Mexican airspace but you communicate with El Paso Approach.
http://204.108.4.16/d-tpp/1102/00134LD4.PDF
Now you can't do a practice LOC 4 here- but that may just be a local thing with the Mexican government.
ATC types probably know more of the specifics.
 
flyinghigh said:
So you could not fly this approach in a lost comm situation? Does the aircraft need a radio station license?
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No radio station license required, you could fly the approach in lost comms (although radar required for the loc 4 into El Paso, I guess you could consider it an emergency if that is all there is). It is also not unusual to be vectored into Mexican/Canadian airspace, even while VFR around here.
 
Border flying is a lot easier than I expected. Like blackhawk im doing a bunch of mexico stuff vfr, and ultimately as long as there was no landing and the other country knows whats up, there really has been no issues
 
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