Simviation Forum - My sim Flight form.

Sep 3^rd, 2008 at 9:52pm

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I fill out this handy little sheet before any flight I wish to perform, it is a quick reference for me while I'm in the cockpit, and helps to keep me prepared while flying (at least, as best as is possible without Weather radar), and allows me to better plan my flights by keeping the information consolidated and organized.

Any suggestions, additions, etc. that could be made?

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Reply #1 - Sep 3^rd, 2008 at 10:15pm

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That's good stuff

If you make it a practice to NOT allow yourself to reference data you don't take with you into the cockpit.. it becomes second nature to be thorough.

That sheet looks pretty thorough Cool

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Reply #2 - Sep 3^rd, 2008 at 10:29pm

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Here's an example, all filled out and ready to go (Notice I added a slot for Contingency fuel):

F and T in Clearance are blank because I cannot predict those.

(This sheet can be used perfectly well with VFR flightplans, as well

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(I Also added a slot for TAFs)

« Last Edit: Sep 7^th, 2008 at 5:04pm by ThomasKaira »

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Reply #3 - Sep 16^th, 2008 at 9:30pm

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Nice on my flights I usually print off my TAF's for Arrival current METARS Sometimes NOTAMS if they are affecting me and of course my fltplan.com navigation log

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Reply #4 - Sep 17^th, 2008 at 1:40am

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Feel free to steal my format, it's not copyrighted. Wink

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Reply #5 - Sep 18^th, 2008 at 1:03am

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I never took the time to make a fancy form and make it all pretty, but I've gone through a few notepads from writing down flightplan info, flight times, ect Wink

But I have my laptop set up on my desk next to my desktop computer, which makes multi-tasking using two computers very easy to accomplish all sorts of tasks Cool

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Reply #6 - Nov 11^th, 2008 at 9:01pm

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Good stuff. I used to try to do something similar in real life. I used to fly into lots of small airports in my 172 and often they had right hand traffic patterns for one landing direction, left for the other. So I'd draw out the airport diagram with pattern info arrows, and also put the traffic pattern altitude right next to the picture.

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Reply #7 - Nov 11^th, 2008 at 9:19pm

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flaminghotsauce wrote on Nov 11^th, 2008 at 9:01pm:

Good stuff. I used to try to do something similar in real life. I used to fly into lots of small airports in my 172 and often they had right hand traffic patterns for one landing direction, left for the other. So I'd draw out the airport diagram with pattern info arrows, and also put the traffic pattern altitude right next to the picture.

I still do something like that... If I'm taking a long flight into unfamiliar territory; my kneeboard will have com, awos/asos, runways/pattern-directions, field elevation, etc written out. I also like to have an airport diagram at least scribbled out (I don't care how long you've been flying you WILL get turned around at airports with other "standard" taxi-way layouts). I always carry a AFD, just in case.. and if need be, the newer GPSs have all that data a few knob twists away.

That's what's neat about simming. If you choose to go about it realistically, you need to pre-flight, just like you do in real flying. It's oddly satisfying to be able to replicate real flying; right down to being able to clear the runway and and obey the taxi instructions Wink

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