Cross-Country Flight Planning

Question 1

Name the special use airspace and explain each

Answer 1

M.C.P.R.A.W.N
-Military operating areas (MOA): Air combat and aerobatics can be occurring

• Controlled Firing Area: activities that may be hazardous to non hazardous aircrafts
• Prohibited area: Can not fly in it. Used for security purposes
• Restricted area: Can fly through if you contact the controlling agency of that area and request it
• Alert area: High volume of pilot training or unusual type of aerial activity
• National Security: Can fly through them but they do not want you to

Question 2

What are the oxygen requirements?

Answer 2

• Above 12,500 to 14,000 ft MSL: the required minimum flight crew must be provided with and must use supplemental oxygen for periods of flight over 30 minutes
• Above 14,000 ft MSL: the required minimum flight crew must be provided with and must use supplemental oxygen at all times
• Above 15,000 ft MSL: each occupant must be provided with supplemental oxygen

Question 3

What are some ways to file an IFR plan?

When should you file it?

Answer 3

• FSs by phone, over the radio, or in person
• Online
• ForeFlight
• ATC
• Should be filed 30 minutes prior to departure

Question 4

How do you cancel an IFR flight plan?
How do you cancel on an uncontrolled airport?
Can you cancel it during flight? if so what is required?

Answer 4

• IFR flight plans are automatically cancelled by ATC upon landing
• For non towered airports you must contact ATC or FSS to cancel
• You can also cancel it anytime in the air if you are out of IMC and out of class A airspace

Question 5

What are the minimum fuel requirements for an IFR flight plan?

Answer 5

• Complete the flight to the first airport of intended landing
• Fly to the alternate airport
• 45 minutes at normal cruise speed

Question 6

When do you need an alternate airport?

Answer 6

You always need an alternate airport unless the airport you are going to has an instrument approach and the weather is above the 1-1-2-3 rule

Question 7

What is the 1-1-2-3 rule?

Answer 7

• 1 hour before to 1 hour after ETA
• 2,000 ft ceiling above the airport elevation
• 3 SM visibility

Question 8

Non precision approach visibility requirements

Answer 8

• 800 ft ceiling

- 2 SM visibility

Question 9

Precision approach visibility requirements

Answer 9

• 600 ft ceiling

- 2 SM visibility

Question 10

How did you make sure that you were fit to fly today?

Answer 10

I.M.S.A.F.E
-Illness

• Medication: must be approved by FAA
• Stress: Acute (short term) and Chronic (long term)
• Alcohol: Can not fly if within the past 8 hours you were drinking before the flight, have 0.04% of alcohol in blood or if you feel any symptoms of it
• Fatigue: Acute and chronic
• Emotion

Question 11

How did you establish your personal minimums and how did you make sure that everything was ready and legal for the flight?

Answer 11

P.A.V.E
-Pilot

• Aircraft
• enVironment
• External pressures

Question 12

What are the IFR minimum altitudes?

Answer 12

• If over a mountainous area then it is 2,000 ft above the highest obstacle within a horizontal area of 4 NM
• If over a mountainous area the in is 1,000 ft above the highest obstacle within a horizontal distance of 4 NM

Question 13

What are the IFR cruising altitudes?

Answer 13

-When operating below 18,000 ft MSL and on a magnetic course of 0-179 then it is any odd thousand number and if on a magnetic course of 180-359 then any even thousand number