![]() It will be a day VFR flight in a typical single-engine airplane. It is July 9, 2019, and we are preparing to fly from the Jake Arner Memorial Airport (22N) in Lehighton, Pennsylvania, to the Sidney Municipal Airport (N23) in Sidney, New York. So, instrument pilots take note! Also, all flight planning in this tutorial will be done using the ForeFlight app. While this tutorial is about preflight planning a VFR flight, everything presented here also applies to an IFR flight. So, let’s get started on proactively planning for a typical VFR cross-country flight. Preparing for a flight is not an option, it is a regulation.įAR 91.103 states, “Each pilot in command shall, before beginning a flight, become familiar with all available information concerning that flight.” Adhering to the tenets of good flight planning will result in a flight that goes smoothly with few, if any, glitches. ![]() Flying proactively is researching every aspect of your flight so that, with your hands full flying the airplane, you never have to look for information that could have been gathered before departure. Being surprised by something that could have been known prior to takeoff is an example of flying reactively. Photo by Jack Fleetwood Good flight planning begins with a mindset, and that mindset is to always fly proactively, and never reactively.
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