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flight plan
Wiktionary
alt. A document filed by a pilot prior to departure, containing essential information about the flight. n. A document filed by a pilot prior to departure, containing essential information about the flight.
Wikipedia
Flight plans are documents filed by a pilot or flight dispatcher with the local Civil Aviation Authority (e.g. FAA in the USA) prior to departure which indicate the plane's planned route or flight path. Flight plan format is specified in the ICAO Doc 4444. They generally include basic information such as departure and arrival points, estimated time en route, alternate airports in case of bad weather, type of flight (whether instrument flight rules [IFR] or visual flight rules [VFR]), the pilot's information, number of people on board and information about the aircraft itself. In most countries, flight plans are required for flights under IFR, but may be optional for flying VFR unless crossing international borders. Flight plans are highly recommended, especially when flying over inhospitable areas, such as water, as they provide a way of alerting rescuers if the flight is overdue. In the United States and Canada, when an aircraft is crossing the Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), either an IFR or a special type of VFR flight plan called a DVFR (Defense VFR) flight plan must be filed. For IFR flights, flight plans are used by air traffic control to initiate tracking and routing services. For VFR flights, their only purpose is to provide needed information should search and rescue operations be required, or for use by air traffic control when flying in a "Special Flight Rules Area".
Flight plan or variant may refer to:
- Flight plan, the plan for a flight filed with aviation authorities
- Flightplan (2005 film), 2005 thriller film starring Jodie Foster
- Flight planning, planning a flight plan
- Flight-Plan, Japanese video game developer
Flight Plan: A Review Of Civil Aviation In Australia Today is a 1950 Australian documentary directed by Lee Robinson and Stanley Hawes for the Australian National Film Board.
Usage examples of "flight plan".
He ran into bad weather north of here, and had to file an instrument flight plan.
I'm beginning to think that all I need do to ruin an exercise is to file a flight plan!
He would be covered, with a perfectly legal international flight plan filed days in advance.
We have two Speeds, not cleared for takeoff, who haven't submitted a flight plan, who aren't listed on our schedule, haring off into the wild unknown at this moment.
I'll call my pilot and have him file a flight plan to Colorado Springs instead of Washington.
Since we don't know the exact point of takeof f, we'll have to play that by ear until we link up with our flight plan.
Never less than five speeches per day, more often as many as nine, in as many different places before as many diverse groups--- but always the same speech, delivered off file cards he kept in his pocket, changed only in minor local details by a frantic staff on the Presidential aircraft, trying to keep track of the flight plan.