SPAJC
Pre-takeoff checklist
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- May 15, 2014
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Jeff
Greetings all!!
I have a question about flight plans. On the standard FAA Flight Plan form, in the route of flight section, how detailed can you or should you be? In my training, we always went direct to our destination VFR obviously. Would you put victor airways, VOR radials and such in the route of flight? For example, if I wanted to depart from KSPA and intercept the 325 radial of the SPA Vortac to follow V53 to SUG then intercept the 331 radial of the SUG Vortac to follow V364 then continue to follow V364 when it changes to the 207 radial of the Holston Mtn Vortac and arrive at 0A9 as my destination.
How much of that would I put in the route of flight and what would the format be? I envision it something like this, considering the point of departure is already listed as KSPA at the top of the form:
Direct SPAV53 Direct SUGV364 Direct HMVV364 Direct 0A9
Would it be appropriate to leave out the "Direct" every time considering it's probably expected that you are flying direct to that point with exception to restricted airspace, etc. Also, If I wasn't flying a Victor airway and was just flying on radials off of the VORs, is there a particular format for that? In foreflight, it wants the format for that to be something like this:
KSPA SPA325005
which would tell the program that I wanted to depart KSPA and goto the SPA Vortac 325 radial 5 nm from where I started.
I know this probably will require a lot of information, but I haven't been able to find or obtain otherwise a clear answer for this. I want to be able to file a good detailed flight plan; I'm just not sure how to do so in such a way that it is easy to understand and properly formatted.
Thanks in advance for any help!
I have a question about flight plans. On the standard FAA Flight Plan form, in the route of flight section, how detailed can you or should you be? In my training, we always went direct to our destination VFR obviously. Would you put victor airways, VOR radials and such in the route of flight? For example, if I wanted to depart from KSPA and intercept the 325 radial of the SPA Vortac to follow V53 to SUG then intercept the 331 radial of the SUG Vortac to follow V364 then continue to follow V364 when it changes to the 207 radial of the Holston Mtn Vortac and arrive at 0A9 as my destination.
How much of that would I put in the route of flight and what would the format be? I envision it something like this, considering the point of departure is already listed as KSPA at the top of the form:
Direct SPAV53 Direct SUGV364 Direct HMVV364 Direct 0A9
Would it be appropriate to leave out the "Direct" every time considering it's probably expected that you are flying direct to that point with exception to restricted airspace, etc. Also, If I wasn't flying a Victor airway and was just flying on radials off of the VORs, is there a particular format for that? In foreflight, it wants the format for that to be something like this:
KSPA SPA325005
which would tell the program that I wanted to depart KSPA and goto the SPA Vortac 325 radial 5 nm from where I started.
I know this probably will require a lot of information, but I haven't been able to find or obtain otherwise a clear answer for this. I want to be able to file a good detailed flight plan; I'm just not sure how to do so in such a way that it is easy to understand and properly formatted.
Thanks in advance for any help!