Canada: Flight assistance and information provided by FSSs and flight information centres (FIC) for aviation safety. Flight services include pilot briefings, flight plan (FP) acceptance and processing, aerodrome advisories, inflight communications, relay of ATC clearances, assistance to aircraft in emergency situations, alerting and searches for VFR aircraft, direction finding (DF) assistance, NAVAID's monitoring, and issuance of NOTAM and surface weather observations.