VFR Flight Plan "Route of Flight"

[Medicryan]

It has been a long time since I have done a VFR flight plan. I have my Commerical Checkride scheduled for next Wednesday and the examiner is having me plan the flight from PIE to SAV. I have never planned a VFR flight for that long and I am a little confused on what to tell FSS when I file my flight plan for the "route of flight". Obviously I can file an IFR flight plan with ease, but the VFR part I am little confused on. I should know this, and I do for short flights, but the long ones have me confused. Any info would be appeciated.

Ryan

 

[MauleSkinner]

Same way you would for an instrument flight plan...if you're going direct, file direct. If you're going fix to fix, file the fixes. If you're following I-85, I'd probably file direct, and put "via I-85" in the remarks

Good luck!

David

 

[100LL... Again!]

I used to put: "Meandering, yet mostly direct".

 

[TankerDriver]

Dead reckoning.

All you have to give them is a general route of flight. Direct will work and if you're flying airways, VOR to VOR will also work. Large towns, landmarks, etc... will work. All it's for is if you go down somewhere along your route of flight, they have something to work off of when search and rescue is dispatched.

 

[nosehair]

Large towns, landmarks, etc... will work. All it's for is if you go down somewhere along your route of flight, they have something to work off of when search and rescue is dispatched.

That used to work,...back when humans tended to the work...but now...
AIM 5-1-4 VFR Flight Plans: Block 8 Route of Flight: "Define the route of flight by using NAVAID identifier codes and airways.

Now you have to speak "computerese".

 

[Flyerjosh]

That used to work,...back when humans tended to the work...but now...
AIM 5-1-4 VFR Flight Plans: Block 8 Route of Flight: "Define the route of flight by using NAVAID identifier codes and airways.

Now you have to speak "computerese".

You can supplement the "computerese" in the route of flight block, with additional comments in the remarks section.

 

[FlyingFisherman]

Are you actually going to Savannah from Peoria? No?

Sounds like a trick of some kind. I know a DE that would tell private students to go from central Ohio to Grosse Ile (KONZ) in Detroit. Plan your flight direct over the water you get asked about survival equipment, overwater ops and what not. Go around, you're asked "why" and any reasonable reply would get you a pat on the back and moving right on the oral.

I and most if not all of the commercial applicants I've known just "simulated" opening and closing a flight plan in air. Couldn't be initiated by the DE and they'd actually tune the freq, roleplay the conversation and be done with it.

I'd ask if it's useful to file a useless flight plan or if he'd something more accurate to what the actual agenda is in the event something actually does happen on the checkride.

 

[Medicryan]

It is actually from St Petersburg, FL (PIE) to Savannah

 

[FlyingFisherman]

It is actually from St Petersburg, FL (PIE) to Savannah

Heh...oops :laugh: