My sim Flight form.

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My sim Flight form.

Postby ThomasKaira » Wed Sep 03, 2008 8:52 pm

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.

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Any suggestions, additions, etc. that could be made?
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Re: My sim Flight form.

Postby Brett_Henderson » Wed Sep 03, 2008 9:15 pm

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  8-)
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Re: My sim Flight form.

Postby ThomasKaira » Wed Sep 03, 2008 9:29 pm

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

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

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

(I Also added a slot for TAFs)
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Re: My sim Flight form.

Postby SkyDreamer » Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:30 pm

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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Re: My sim Flight form.

Postby ThomasKaira » Wed Sep 17, 2008 12:40 am

Feel free to steal my format, it's not copyrighted. ;)
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Re: My sim Flight form.

Postby BFMF » Thu Sep 18, 2008 12:03 am

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 ;)

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 8-)
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Re: My sim Flight form.

Postby flaminghotsauce » Tue Nov 11, 2008 9:01 pm

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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Re: My sim Flight form.

Postby Brett_Henderson » Tue Nov 11, 2008 9:19 pm

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...
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