Flight Plan Procedure Question

[Kream926]

Funny thing is there's probably a lot of 10,000 hour 777 Captains that can't file a flight plan either! Just an observation... now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

funny you say, i have a friend who works at an fbo who had a lear captain ask him if he could help him file.

 

[midlifeflyer]

EKUFlyer, thank you for locating that appendix but how did you know where to look for it? I can't find a reference to it in the AIM Chapter 4 or Chapter 5. However, I did find a reference to it on the 2nd page of the 2005 AIM but they were just using that number as an example..

The full list is in couple of FAA publications, including Order 7110.65P, the ATC Handbook.

But it's probably easier to grab a list from one of the DUAT providers or AOPA or one of the other places you can find the by Googling "flight plan aircraft designator"

Some FSS website also carry them. For example, http://www.faa.gov/ats/afss/aooafss/plane/fixwing.htm

 

[Lead Sled]

funny you say, i have a friend who works at an fbo who had a lear captain ask him if he could help him file.

There are a lot of bizjet pilots who seldom, if ever, phone file. A lot of guys simply call one of the flight planning services and tell them where they want to go and how many passengers they have. The company does the flight planning and filing for them. It's simply a matter of downloading the information into the FMS via datalink. It's usually done on an annual subscription basis. In our operation we don't frequent the larger airports that typically support this service so we normally do all of our own flight planning. A lot of guys use DUATS or sites like Fltplan.com and they are good enough for most legs. Personally, for the past 10 years or so, I've been using Flitesoft-Worldwide. I can literally plan a coast to coast flight, print out all of of the weather, weather charts and appropriate documents and file the flight plan in 5 to 10 minutes. Its accuracy is amazing - I can't remember ever remember being more than 5 minutes and 200 pounds of fuel off of the flight plan estimates on a coast to coast flight either direction. Funny thing, on rare occassions I have to fall a FSS to file. I do it so seldom that I need to find one of those paper flight plan forms to keep from screwing it up.

'Sled

 

[semperfido]

we use afis, arinc and air routing. "sled" described it pretty well. FP is data linked into our fms. clearance data linked. weather data linked. just call for taxijust takes 5-10 min on phone or computer to get the ball rolling.

 

[HiFlyChick]

The order of info between Canada and the US is slightly different, plus from my home base all of the aircraft, company and personal info is on file, so I generally get about 2/3 of the way through and say, "Now what comes next - you guys have a different order than Canada?" I think it's easier for a briefer to prompt for info than have it given in the wrong order so he has to tab all over the screen to get to the correct field

 

[501261]

Funny thing, on rare occassions I have to fall a FSS to file. I do it so seldom that I need to find one of those paper flight plan forms to keep from screwing it up.

Ain't that the truth!