How to build a flight plan
Read for a good start on how to do flight planning:
How to build in Aerofly FS 4
- First check if your airports exist in Aerofly FS 4.
- Build a basic flight plan in Aerofly FS 4.
- You may want to use named checkpoints in Aerofly for your flight plan: VORs, NDBs and waypoints / fixes.
- Think about alternate airports along your route, or at least emergency landing sites.
- 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:
- Runway length
- Restricted airspace
- Terrain heights (see maximum elevation figure)
- Weather reports
- Check if your plan is legal to fly under visual flight rules or instrument flight rules rules.
- 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.)
- 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 (Be aware that nav data in Aerofly FS 4 is out of date and may not match real world data.)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.
- Match the waypoints from your flight planning tool.
- Adjust the cruise altitude.
- 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:
No fly regions:
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