In a previous article, "Jay Honeck" said:
Still, I found the Canadian side to be disturbingly
over-commercialized. Although they still have the wonderful park that

Well, like you say, they rely on tourism, and if people create a market
for crap, Niagara Falls Ontario will fill it. They've always had an awful
lot of cheesy ugly stuff - I learned the phrase "tourist trap" on a trip
there as a young boy.

(again!) along the Southern shore of Lake Erie. It appeared as if our
desire to fly over Canada was going to pay off in spades, so I called
Buffalo Flight Service, and got the poop on over-flying Canada.
Strangely, they weren't all that helpful, with the briefer saying
stuff like "I've never heard of any VFR pilots being charged" and
"I think you'll be in touch with ATC throughout the flight". I
found these "fuzzy" answers inadequate, so I also called the
London, Ontario version of Flight Service, and got the Canadian version
of instructions for over-flying Canada.

You know, ever since I've gotten my license, I've found Canadian Flight
Service *way* more helpful than Buffalo AFSS. At the time, I thought
maybe it was innate difference between US and Canada - but as I travelled
more I found that other US AFSSes were also friendly and helpful. I think
it's just Buffalo that sucks. And it's not even all of the briefers at
Buffalo - just some of them.

The trip: 1736 nautical miles. We'll just have to save Greenfield
Village for a future trip!

Great trip, thanks for sharing.

--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
It's a house of cards, supported not on the backs of turtles but on bull****.
Making the bull**** gooier makes the house of cards less likely to collapse,
but is not necessarily an improvement. -- Alan J Rosenthal