Flyong from Toronto (Ontario) to Pitsburg Intl

Is there anything I should take into account? I will be filling IFR.
Probably stop for customs in Buffalo. Will be leaving Pittsburgh for the
return trip back around 12:30am. Do they have any closure times there?

--
Anthony Acri

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On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 02:59:28 GMT, "Richard Kaplan"
wrote:

No closure times for the airport. The controllers are usually quite
accommodating unless you happen to show up right in the middle of peak
airliner arrivals. Even then the longest delay I can ever recall was maybe
15 minutes.

You have no choice except to park at Signature, however, with all the usual
high fees for a Signature. I remember I once landed at PIT with a student
on a training flight and we did a U-turn in the far corner of the Signature
parking lot and can you believe someone must have been out there with
binoulars watching my wheels hit their pavement and therefore they sent me a
$25 "Ramp Fee" bill?

Or they merely got your N-number from monitoring the tower/ground
frequencies.

wrote in message
...
| On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 02:59:28 GMT, "Richard Kaplan"
| wrote:
|
| No closure times for the airport. The controllers are usually quite
| accommodating unless you happen to show up right in the middle of peak
| airliner arrivals. Even then the longest delay I can ever recall was
maybe
| 15 minutes.
|
| You have no choice except to park at Signature, however, with all the
usual
| high fees for a Signature. I remember I once landed at PIT with a
student
| on a training flight and we did a U-turn in the far corner of the
Signature
| parking lot and can you believe someone must have been out there with
| binoulars watching my wheels hit their pavement and therefore they sent
me a
| $25 "Ramp Fee" bill?
|
| Or they merely got your N-number from monitoring the tower/ground
| frequencies.

That must be it. I flew in back in 1998 and the GA ramp was closed, so
Ground put us beside a jetway to clear immigration. It was pretty funny
looking up at the jetway from a P28R wondering how to get up there. We got
the $25 bill too, about 2 months later without ever going near Signature.

"Randy at Home" wrote in
message le.rogers.com...

That must be it. I flew in back in 1998 and the GA ramp was closed, so
Ground put us beside a jetway to clear immigration. It was pretty funny
looking up at the jetway from a P28R wondering how to get up there. We got
the $25 bill too, about 2 months later without ever going near Signature.

That is an interesting throught in terms of how this happened . I did,
however, call Signature by phone after I got the bill and say I did not use
their services but instead did just a landing and a taxi back for takeoff; I
was told I would not have been charged the fee unless my airplane physically
touched the ramp. I had to speak with the manager and told him I was only
briefly on a tiny part of the ramp to do a U turn and he said OK he would
"let me get by" this time but in the future if my wheels hit their pavement
then the full ramp fee is owed. I remember this well because this event
more than almost any other Signature policy convinced me to avoid Signature
anywhere and everywhere I go if there are any options.


--
Richard Kaplan, CFII

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