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PLANNING A CROSS COUNTRY
THE THINGS YOU’LL NEED:
- Appropriate Chart(s)
- Cross Country Planning Form
- Plotter
- Flight Computer
- Flight Guide (Airport Guide)
- Knee Board
- Weight and Balance Information
The Plan:
- Acquire Weather Information (either
by phone or computer)
- If you call, ask for a standard WX
Briefing for your route, winds aloft, notams, airmets and sigmets
- Draw Your Course
- Using Your Plotter, determine your
True Course
- Calculate WIND CORRECTION and add
in VARIATION to get the MAGNETIC COURSE
- With your plotter, select VISUAL
CHECK POINTS every 10 miles or so – enter on your planning sheet.
- Using your course line, determine the
ALTITUDE(s) for your flight – consider: ceilings / obstructions / airspaces
- Determine all FREQUENCIES you will
need along your trip:
- All Approach Controllers along your
route
- All WX information you could access
(ATIS, FSS, AWOS, HIWAS)
- Frequencies of Departure and
Destination Airports
- Calculate Weight and Balance
- Access and go over Destination
Airport Diagram:
- Determine how you would enter the
traffic pattern of destination airport (use wind reports to help).
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