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I've flown into and around Canada quite a bit. However, it's always been through the company's dispatch folks. I've never flown my own plane into Canada (it's a long way from Atlanta ), but I just saw this in the Fltplan.com newsletter. Probably I'm the only one who didn't know this, but.... Be Sure to Cancel Your Canadian Flight When Plans Change The U.S. and Canada handle most things similarly, but there is one important difference: the way the FAA and Nav Canada treat flight plans that are filed but not used. In the U.S., a filed flight plan will simply expire if ATC is not contacted for an IFR clearance. In Canada, however, a filed flight plan is handled as a firm plan to depart. At non-controlled airports, the Canadians take the opposite approach from the FAA. They assume that an aircraft has departed as planned unless they hear differently. When filing a flight plan departing from an uncontrolled airport, Nav Canada expects to establish contact within 60 minutes of the scheduled departure time. Otherwise, search and rescue efforts begin on the assumption that you have taken off and are now missing. At controlled airports with operating towers in Canada, this isn't much of an issue, since the pilot would be in radio contact from taxi out. From remote airports (or at airports after the tower has closed), failing to cancel a filed flight plan causes a great deal of unnecessary effort to locate the pilot. If the flight plan has not been filed yet (FltPlan.com normally files your flight plan 2 hours before scheduled departure time), then just remove the checkmark from the 'File This' column on the Active Flight Plan List and click Press Here When Done. There is no need to contact Nav Canada. To cancel a flight plan after it has been filed, you must contact Nav Canada. Any Canadian ATC facility that could have given a clearance can also cancel a flight plan. Nav Canada has a national phone number, and a phone call is the most reliable way to cancel your flight plan. The phone number appears on the top right side of your NavLog. It's also important that contact information on FltPlan be complete and up to date. Nav Canada can see that a flight plan was filed through FltPlan and will contact us if there is an issue (see the article below). So please remember, at non-controlled airports the Canadians expect departure within one hour of the time on the flight plan or they start looking.