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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?

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-)

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 )

(I Also added a slot for TAFs)

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

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

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-)

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.

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...