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Filing Flight Plan
Similar to the other thread on your preflighting workflow for an IFR flight - what are your flows when you're actually flying IFR?
The flows I've come to use:
- Panel Check: go across the comm/nav selector item by item to confirm things are set right: Com 1, Com 2, Nav 1, Nav 2, ADF, DME, MKR. Use it on departure and, once I've briefed the approach, I keep repeating at each major phase to make sure I'm tuning things right as I progress through the approach.
- 3Ms: Missed, Minutes (or how to ID the MAP if not timing), Minimums. Use it once i intercept the final approach course
- 2NM from FAF: GUMPS
- 6Ts: Pretty standard for PTs and Holds
- Most importantly and how I try to stay ahead of the plane is constantly asking myself both What am I doing? and What's Next? I probably ask myself this 25 times on the average approach.
Curious what everyone else does.
The flows I've come to use:
- Panel Check: go across the comm/nav selector item by item to confirm things are set right: Com 1, Com 2, Nav 1, Nav 2, ADF, DME, MKR. Use it on departure and, once I've briefed the approach, I keep repeating at each major phase to make sure I'm tuning things right as I progress through the approach.
- 3Ms: Missed, Minutes (or how to ID the MAP if not timing), Minimums. Use it once i intercept the final approach course
- 2NM from FAF: GUMPS
- 6Ts: Pretty standard for PTs and Holds
- Most importantly and how I try to stay ahead of the plane is constantly asking myself both What am I doing? and What's Next? I probably ask myself this 25 times on the average approach.
Curious what everyone else does.