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. …