build-flightplan.md

How to build a flight plan

Read for a good start on how to do flight planning:

• How I Cross-Country - KITPLANES
• Flight Planning - AOPA
• How To Plan a Cross-Country Flight - Pilot Institute

How to build in Aerofly FS 4

1. First check if your airports exist in Aerofly FS 4.
2. Build a basic flight plan in Aerofly FS 4.
   1. You may want to use named checkpoints in Aerofly for your flight plan: VORs, NDBs and waypoints / fixes.
   2. Think about alternate airports along your route, or at least emergency landing sites.
3. Rebuild the flight plan in a flight planning tool like SkyVector: Flight Planning / Aeronautical Charts; you may want to use aerofly-missions --skyvector. Take a proper look at:
   1. Runway length
   2. Restricted airspace
   3. Terrain heights (see maximum elevation figure)
   4. Weather reports
4. Check if your plan is legal to fly under visual flight rules or instrument flight rules rules.
5. Set time and weather conditions in Aerofly FS 4 to match real life conditions. (You may want to use the Aerofly Wettergerät to get weather data.)
6. Modify your flight plan in Aerofly FS 4. (Be aware that nav data in Aerofly FS 4 is out of date and may not match real world data.) You may want to import the flight plan.
   1. Match the waypoints from your flight planning tool.
   2. Adjust the cruise altitude.
   3. Set your departure and approach to head into the wind.

Airspaces

It is very important to know your airspaces. Europe is tightly controlled, so check for no-fly zones and controlled airspace.

• Class C/D: All aircraft are subject to ATC clearance
• Class E: Aircraft operating under IFR and SVFR are subject to ATC clearance.

To help your with your adventure:

• Flight Maps for Europe excluding Norway
• Flight Maps for Norway

No fly regions:

• German NOTAM
• Danish NOTAM
• Swedish NOTAM

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