VFR Club
| With even a simple flight plan, actually flying an aircraft is considerably easier than if no flight plan at all is prepared. In the real world, one would add "and much safer", and under IFR, a flight plan is mandatory. The flight plan being discussed here is the flight plan for the pilot, and may be alternatively called the "Pilot's Log". The flight plan required for VATSIM is for the benefit of the Air Traffic Controller. They are slightly different, but the VATSIM flight plan is simpler and can be quickly generated from the Pilot's flight plan using the built in Flight Plan forms included with Squawkbox and FSInn. | |
| Flight Planning Tools | |
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The current version (11/11/08) consists of Software Version 8.10 and |
A flight planning spreadsheet with built in database. The database contains over 1000 records including most UK airfields, VORs and NDBs, Visual Reference Points and over 100 farm strips. Enter your departure and destination aerodromes, en route waypoints and winds and the programme creates your flight plan and a Pilots Log which can be printed out. It comes with a separate Instruction document (pdf file). Please always use the current version. |
| A simple spreadsheet form for use as a Pilot's log (PLOG) including entry boxes for aircraft type, fuel and endurance, brakes off, brakes on, radio frequencies, weather etc. for Departure En-route and Arrival phases of flight. A5 landscape format makes it handy to put on the desk alongside yoke or joystick. Prints two forms to an A4 page. | |
| Drift Calculator |
A very simple Excel spreadsheet to do the wind calculation. Enter airspeed, track, wind speed and direction, it gives you the drift angle, the heading to steer and the groundspeed. |
| Flight Formulae Version 3.2 (14/06/08) is current. |
Speed/Distance table, inches/Mb conversion, fuel unit conversions & weight and several other useful formulae in this simple spreadsheet. |
| Flight Plans | |
| Inter-Location Plans | A set of up to six different types of flight plan for trips between any two of Liverpool, Biggin Hill, Carlisle, Gloucestershire, and Shoreham. There are two printable flight plan forms, one for 100 kts the other for 180 kts, a text file, an FSNav plan, an FS Commander plan, and a Google Maps plan. The text files and FSNav plans were prepared by Gray Brett, the printable forms and FS Commander plans by Tony Driver, and the Google Map plans by Francisco Garcia Garrido. |
| Barton-Location Plans | A set of four different types of flight plan for trips between Barton and other locations. There are two printable flight plan forms, one for 100 kts the other for 180 kts, a text file, an FSNav plan. The text files and FSNav plans were prepared by Gray Brett, and the others by Tony Driver. |
| Two FS Navigator flight plans for the Club's contribution to VATSIM UK's Annual Bill Casey Sywell Air Show. Starting with an overhead left hand orbit at Leicester to gather everyone together, we then proceed in convoy to Sywell, which being a grass airfield, can be hard to spot. The two flight plans cover an approach to runway 21 and to 03 for our flypast. | |
| Gloucester-Sywell | FlightPlanner Flightplan for use by members flying from Gloucester to get to the 2007 Virtual Sywell Airshow on 11th July. |
| Gloucester-Valley-Ronaldsway | FlightPlanner flight plan and pilots log for the 2nd Anniversary fly out to Ronaldsway. The Outbound sheet is Gloucester-Valley. The Inbound sheet has been used for the valley-Ronaldsway leg. |
| London Flying Eye Route | Follow Ruth McTighe flying CAPITAL (G-FLYI - the "flying eye") on her standard route: depart Stapleford, enter the Heathrow zone at Finchley, route down to the A40, then turn west. Fly overhead Northolt, and Denham, then fly south via Burnham NDB to Ascot (at 1000ft to duck under the Heathrow 09R & 09L approach path. East along the M3 to Richmond, northeast to Battersea, then back home to Stapleford. FSNAV. |
| Redhill to Stansted IFR 1 | An FS Navigator IFR Flight Plan specifically for Night Flight in a light aircraft. Departure from Redhill is via runway 26L. |
| Redhill to Stansted IFR 2 | An FS Navigator IFR Flight Plan specifically for Night Flight in a light aircraft. Departure from Redhill is via runway 08R. |
| Bankstown to Sydney.fsn | FS Navigator flight plan for an Antipodean jaunt by Tony Driver |
| Biggin Hill to Kemble | Flight Plan - FlightPlanner |
| Biggin Hill to Southampton | Flight Plan - FlightPlanner |
| Gloucester-Cardiff-Bristol-Gloucester | FS Navigator flight plan for a VFR tour around the Severn Valley by Tony Driver |
| Glos_Car_Bris_Flight_Plan.xls | A VFR tour around the Severn Valley. FlightPlanner |
| Kemble to Biggin Hill | FS Navigator VFR flight plan by Tony Driver |
| Biggin Hill to Kemble | FS Navigator VFR flight plan by Tony Driver |
| Luton to Rochester | FS Navigator VFR flight plan by Tony Driver |
| Biggin Hill to Cambridge | FS Navigator VFR flight plan by Tony Driver |
| Southend to Cambridge | FS Navigator VFR flight plan by Tony Driver |
| Biggin Hill to Rotterddam | 1st Anniversaey flight and first outing across the Channel |
| Birmingham to Hawarden | FSNavigator Flight Plan for Red Nose Day March 11th 2005. |
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Page updated 11/11/08 |