Hello everyone,
I'm currently a student pilot trying to get my PPL and have started the XC phase of my training
and me and my CFI have gone over on how to fill out the flight planning sheet but once I reach home to try and
practice on what I have learn I forget some of the steps to finish the flight planning. I have tried going to YouTube
but the problem is that some of the people on the video have there own way of flight planning and it's not the way
the my CFI has instructed me and the other videos I have seen from YouTube are out of the country and I get
more confused.
Is there any book or other way I can learn the step by step for filling out the flight planning?
any advice would be helpful?
Thank you
There is not any one "flight planning sheet" that is an industry standard, which would explain why you are finding that some people "have their own way" of doing things. In fact, a blank piece of paper can work, too. Given those vagaries, I would suggest you work with your CFI to do it just the way he or she wants you to learn how to do it.
Call your cfi and tell him you need more ground. At your level you don't need to be self medicating.
Quote from: Flying Pig on January 26, 2016, 05:36:45 PM
Call your cfi and tell him you need more ground. At your level you don't need to be self medicating.
Couldn't agree more.
I had a similar problem understanding some concepts during my initial ground instruction. My instructor was great when I said "Nah, not really getting it yet." He'd take that extra time to sit aside with me and help out, and he didn't charge extra for it either.
The fact that you forgot how to do it sounds like you also aren't taking the greatest notes. That's what notes are for. Write out step-by-step procedures to solve a problem, and don't try to rush through with little tricks from memory. Save that for once you actually know how to do it on paper.