The weather in southern Ontario on Christmas eve was perfect for a flight. Destination: Midland Ontario (CYEE).

My pre-flight planning was showing a 30 min ETA. I used World Flight Planner of course. It was handy having all the NOTAMs in one place, especially when they contained runway surface conditions.

I also used NavCanadas new internet flight plan filing service. Worked very well. Much better than their old system.

I had some radio problems on the apron. This particular airplane has a flakey radio stack and I could never get COM2 to work properly. …

Hope everyone has a great holiday! This video cracked me up

Last weekend, Sara and I hopped into a plane and decided to head down to the Dunnville Airport (CDU9). We headed to the airport for a 7:30am departure packed with a snack.

This was the first time I flew the carborated 172 in almost a year. I prefer flying in the fuel injected ones, however none was available this time around. No big deal really… Just a different engine-start procedure and no carb heat (and possible carb icing!) to worry about.

Of course I used World Flight Planner to plan the flight, …