Talk:Flight plan

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What kind of chart is used for initial flight planning. I'm familiar with approach charts, SIDS, Stars. But what kind of chart is used for planning and plotting the route used

[edit] Related topic

I'm thinking about splitting out 'Flight Planning' as a separate article, in order to cover the complications involved in calculating a 'Flight Plan' (the current article). Comments? Murray Langton 10:57, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed Re-write

This article currently only provides details of US domestic flight plans, and the 'Flight planning' article merely redirects to this one.

I propose splitting this into three articles, and then expanding each article considerably:

• 'Flight plan': moderate detail on four types of flight plan, including US domestic, other air traffic control plan, pilot plan with detailed routing and fuel consumption figures, navigation plan for use by onboard navigation computer/automatic pilot.
• 'Flight planning': general outline of requirements, safety regulations, airway routes, physical constraints, weather and other factors to take into account, etc. plus other optional features of current flight planning systems.
• 'Flight planning glossary': there at least 80 specialised words or phrases which can be explained. Some of these may already have a separate article, but the bulk only require a sentence or two of explanation and hardly justify a separate article.

I estimate that the above rewrite will take one to two months.

Any comments/suggestions?

Murray Langton 10:32, 13 February 2006 (UTC)