PPL Level VFR Flight Planning 

Thanks Julien, much appreciated. Glad it helped.

Thanks Steve. Good luck with the cross country. I'd love to hear about your route and how it goes.

Thanks mate. The newer one is much more detailed and up to date.

Nice catch! Well worth pointing out. As demonstrated, it's easy to mistake the two at a glance.

Glad you found it useful :-)

Thanks mate. I've got much better, more recent ones if you're interested to check them out.

I thought you use TAS to work out your ETA!! Not the ground speed. Can you verify that for me please Thank you

Thanks Chris, I appreciate that. I forgot to mention to check NOTAMs as a final step. I find SkyDemon Lite useful for cross checking your gross errors, it also shows you any NOTAMs on your route. Also, notaminfo.com/ukmap (if you're in the UK). Both are free!

Thanks for the advice. I use Sky Demon Lite to cross check the results of 'drawing lines' on the chart! and signed up for the info at NOTAMS. Just the 3,500 foot glide approach to do and then just wait for the weather for first cross country so the video has really helped refreshing ground school which covered Nav some weeks ago ...... I will be storing the video as a favorite just ot check before take off !!! - Thanks again

Chris Wileman You're welcome and good luck! I went for a solo navex around D207 yesterday morning, you just can't beat it. Happy flying!

Hi. To be honest, it normally makes so little difference that I just treat my altitude on the QNH as a pressure altitude (FL). Try it and see, you'll only be out by a few knots in the end. If you are being rigorous though, and I recommend you are just as a matter of good practice (and to prove to your instructor), you'll need to get the regional QNH for the area you're planning to fly in. Create a free account on the Met Office (if you're in the UK) general aviation briefing site: www.metoffice.gov.uk/premium/generalaviation/#/home Here you can access the all important F214 and F215, giving you your area forecasts, spot winds and temperatures. You can also access a full list of regional pressure settings for the current hour and the hour to come: www.metoffice.gov.uk/premium/generalaviation/#/qnh If you don't have access to the internet at the time, you could ring your local air traffic control unit, they should have this information to hand. I hope it goes well and I'm pleased you found the video useful. Thanks for the question.

That's brilliant, thank you. Keep up the amazing work with the videos. They're so helpful to people like me!

That's nice of you to say, thanks. I should really do some more when I have time and a useful topic.

***** Thanks! I'm glad you got something out of it. I'm only a PPL VFR qualified pilot but I'll try my best. Are you talking about light ac IFR outside CAS or commercial airways IFR?

Commercial airways IFR.

You could climb into the overhead and start your clock when you pass through on the outbound heading or you could even start your route from a position just away from the airfield that you can aim for after you've taken off. In those cases you'd have to allow a little extra fuel and time for those initial climbs. Is that what you mean?

@Quantiad yea that's pretty much what I was looking for thanks alot 👍

@@sbmorris2k6 I seem to remember during PPL training it was normal to climb into the overhead and start your route from there. Not only are you in the right place, it also allows you to get to the right altitude and cruise speed for your calculations to be as accurate as possible.

@Quantiad cheers, I'm looking to start my ppl training soon had one lesson a year ago so just learning as much as I can right now, into flight sim aswell so like to use the same principals for that.

Is that a person? If so then I am not them, I'm afraid.