Cross Border Flying

This repository is for pilot's travel across the US borders and deal with US Customs and Border Patrol (US CBP), Mexico, Canada, and Bahamas

Many pilot's use ForeFlight as their electronic flight bag (EFB) ForeFlight app, which contains a feature to download and import custom content packs that contain bundles of related content that can be accessed in the app, making it easier to adapt ForeFlight to a variety of specialized uses. See ForeFlight Content Pack Overview and ForeFlight Content Pack Support for more details.

US Customs Souther Border

Bahamas

Importing Content Packs into ForeFlight for Use

Detailed instructions about how to import Content Packs into Foreflight are available at their support page

1. In general, select each desired file below to download
2. A dialog withh popup, Do you want to download file.zip?, select Download
3. At the top of the Safari app shows a small download icon (next to the address bar), select the download icon
4. Select the file you just downloaded to open the files app.
5. In the files app, Select and hold the respective file and select Share
6. Select ForeFlight app
7. ForeFlight will show a dialog Unpacking content, and then show another dialog Conent Pack Installed when completed.
8. Click OK
9. Close ForeFlight app and Re-Launch. This will refresh the content pack with its associated content.
10. Choose the Maps page in ForeFlight and choose Aero & Category from maps layers and select the associated content pack name to activate the layer.

US Custom Border (Southern Points of Entry)

This respository maintains a directory of US Custom Border Patrol Ports of Entry for the Southern area of the US viewable as waypoints and also provides the repective datasheets. This allows you to research and plan your destination around US CBP southen entries.

US CBP Southern Border download

Bahamas Customs Ports of Entry

This respository maintains a directory of Bahamas Custom Ports of Entry viewable as waypoints.

Bahamas Customs Ports of Entry download

Version History and Future Ideas

• Version 2023.11.10
  • Added Bahamas Custom Ports of Entry
• Version 2023.11.07
  • Initial version of Southern Border Port of Entry Airports for US Customs and Border Patrol (US CBP)

ForeFlight Feature Request to Automatically Update New Versions

Keeping this content packs updated once imported into ForeFlight requires re-downloading newer content packs and re-importing into ForeFlight.

Feature Request

• The ability for content packs to be downloaded and updated from a URL.

  • This would be the simplest method, a link to selected and added to downloads list and ForeFlight would periodically check for new updates. This would function the same way Downloads from ForeFlight work. Client could always delete content pack they no longer want to recieve.

• Allow concurrent multiple cloud drive providers for Documents

  • The cloud storage feature is only available for Performance Plus subscribers of ForeFlight which by adding a folder named contentpacks to the root folder, content packs in the folder are automatically available to download and update. However only one cloud provider is available concurrently. Pilots may need access to multiple resources, companies, flight schools, flight clubs, 3rd party content, etc. I envision a subscription service that provided valuable content on various contant that would currate and keep up-to-date.

Send your support for these request to ForeFlight Support support@foreflight.com.

Legal Disclaimer

All files are provided for educational purposes only. They are not to be used as a navigation tool. No claim is made regarding the accuracy of these charts and their contents.

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