Saturday, November 19, 2011

Flight Planning

By Jericho Khris


Being skilled in flight planning procedures is a skill that all private pilots will be required to have. A flight is planned and will be filed with an Air Traffic Controller before it can go underway; it is a requirement that the FAA and other agencies of equivalence will require you to do. You can easily do this procedure with minimum worries and problems as you gain more and more experience doing it as an private pilot.

Flight planning is something than one should give utmost attention to if you have just started or haven't started learning how to fly. For private pilots who have being doing this their entire careers, the experience they have will make this procedure a walk in the park. Once you have gotten to master the basics and memorized everything, flight planning will be simply and routine for you.

Watching and reading weather reports are an essential part of flight planning. After all, one of the things that you should be watching out for is the weather in the area that you are intending to fly in. Of course, weather reports are mandatory and are issued regularly to pilots. You can get weather reports from the airport where you are going to depart from. Some weather reports may also be obtained through the radio. And in this day and age, the information can easily had by browsing the internet, which can give you a pretty accurate report if you are looking at the right sources of information of course.

So just how long does a run of the mill flight planning take? As such, you have to be very early in the day to start your flight planning. Planning the flight itself could take a very short while. However, you have to look over as many notes and information as possible to ensure that you are well-informed before you close up that envelope and submit it to the Air Traffic Controller.

Your certified flight instructor will cover everything about the basics of flight planning and will give you the basic idea on how the process of flight planning will go over. It is also important to mention that during the flight, you should always stick to your flight or else the FAA will subject you to certain action, you will only be allowed to deviate if there is an emergency happening.




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