VictorValencia
Pre-Flight
As part of my Sport Pilot training I am working on cross country
planning. I have created a couple of flight plans using the tried-and-true
VFR flight planning sheet. For my flight tomorrow I decided to try
this spread-sheet-based flight planner:
http://cbpowell.wordpress.com/2011/...cel-based-vfr-flight-planner-youll-ever-need/
In addition, I used http://www.skyvector.com to get course and distance
information which I then plugged into the spreadsheet along with
POH data for TAS/gph and aviationweather.gov for winds aloft.
The electronic method is so much easier! Holy cow. I found it so
much easier to make tweaks and change parameters such as
wind/altitude/TAS etc.
I still believe it's important to understand the concepts behind the
calculations though.
My question is can I use this method for my checkride?
So far I have resisted the urge to use something like Foreflight since
I don't want to make things more complex than necessary at this
point.
Would the DPE ding me on going electronic?
Victor
planning. I have created a couple of flight plans using the tried-and-true
VFR flight planning sheet. For my flight tomorrow I decided to try
this spread-sheet-based flight planner:
http://cbpowell.wordpress.com/2011/...cel-based-vfr-flight-planner-youll-ever-need/
In addition, I used http://www.skyvector.com to get course and distance
information which I then plugged into the spreadsheet along with
POH data for TAS/gph and aviationweather.gov for winds aloft.
The electronic method is so much easier! Holy cow. I found it so
much easier to make tweaks and change parameters such as
wind/altitude/TAS etc.
I still believe it's important to understand the concepts behind the
calculations though.
My question is can I use this method for my checkride?
So far I have resisted the urge to use something like Foreflight since
I don't want to make things more complex than necessary at this
point.
Would the DPE ding me on going electronic?
Victor