Flight Planning Part 1: Plotting a Course

Question 1

What are the considerations you need when planning your flight?

Answer 1

Airplane cruise performance, Time en route to destination, fuel required, weather conditions (temp, pressure, winds aloft)

Question 2

What is dead recknoning?

Answer 2

Navigation technique based on time, airspeed, distance, and direction

Question 3

What is pilotage?

Answer 3

Navigating by landmarks and visual checkpoints

Question 4

What is the first step to planning via dead recknoning? Second step?

Answer 4

Determine the lengths of the flight legs / True course of each leg /

Question 5

What is the difference between heading and track?

Answer 5

Drift angle

Question 6

What is true heading? What is the name of the angle between the true heading and the true course?

Answer 6

The heading needed to offset drift angle and achieve true course / Wind correction angle

Question 7

What is the definition of magnetic variation?

Answer 7

The difference between magnetic north and true north at any given point

Question 8

What is an isogonic line? Igonic line?

Answer 8

Line’s on a sectional that show the degrees of magnetic variation / Line where there is zero magnetic variation

Question 9

How do you use isogonic lines to achieve a true course matching the magnetic course?

Answer 9

Use the isogonic lines on a sectional to add (west is best) or subtract (east is least) magnetic heading from the true course