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Ben_Chiu Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: 9. "RE: KCLT to KAVL" 04-06-04, 03:11z  > On the subject of flight plan legs: > > Just what is the real world convention for heading, speed and distance > position in a plan? Should this information appear on the line with the > the waypoint at the beginning of the leg, or on the line with the > waypoint at the end of the leg? I'm not sure what you're asking. Leg info should be on the same line as what is required to get from the previous WP to the next WP. > It could get pretty confuseing if we > don't follow some standard, prefferably that used in the real world. Unfortunately, there really isn't a standard layout. However, the information remains the same. > Is speed normally listed as ground speed or indicated airspeed. It's usually groundspeed, but unless you know the winds, you go with TAS, but without cruise charts you're left with IAS, and at the low altitudes and short distances we fly, IAS is close enough. > Allowance for winds and altitude could really complicate time enroute > calculations based on indicated airspeed. Yep. See above. > Do plans normally have seperate sections for departure and destination > airport information? Not usually, but the flight plan forms I give to my students has some space for the immediately important stuff (freqs, runways, elevation, etc.). The rest of the airport info can be looked up in the AFD when you're on the ground. > Does the US FAA have a standard form for fileing a flight plan, and are > the forms in other nations arrainged the same way? Yes, the FAA has a standard form for filing. I think we have one online somewhere around here. I know it's on the back of the FlightAdventures Flight Plan form (a pdf I uploaded many moons ago). I have no idea what other countries use, but I suspect they're similar as again, while the format may be different, the required info remains the same. Hope this helps! Ben -= VPC OffLine Reader 2.1 =- Registered to: Ben Chiu -OLR.PL v1.83- Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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Subject      Author      Message Date     ID      KCLT to KAVL    andor       04-02-04              RE: KCLT to KAVL    andor       04-02-04       1            RE: KCLT to KAVL    andor       04-03-04       2                 RE: KCLT to KAVL    Ben_Chiu       04-03-04       4            RE: KCLT to KAVL    Ben_Chiu       04-03-04       3            RE: KCLT to KAVL    Ben_Chiu       04-04-04       5                 RE: KCLT to KAVL    andor       04-05-04       6                      RE: KCLT to KAVL    Ben_Chiu       04-05-04       7                 RE: KCLT to KAVL    RobertVA       04-05-04       8                      RE: KCLT to KAVL    Ben_Chiu       04-06-04       9                           RE: KCLT to KAVL    RobertVA       04-06-04       10                                RE: KCLT to KAVL    Ben_Chiu       04-06-04       11                                     RE: KCLT to KAVL    RobertVA       04-06-04       12                                          RE: KCLT to KAVL    Ben_Chiu       04-12-04       13                                               RE: KCLT to KAVL    andor       04-13-04       14                                                    RE: KCLT to KAVL    Ben_Chiu       04-15-04       15

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