Visual navigation
Maps
- Map selection
- Interpretation, legends
- Preparation; tracks, fixes, 6-minute markers, fan-lines
Flight planning
- Weather forecast, reports and interpretation
- Choice of route
- Controlled airspace
- Danger, prohibited and restricted areas
- Navigation Log
Calculations
- Magnetic heading(s) and time(s) en-route
- Safety altitudes
- Fuel planning
- Mass and balance
- Performance
Flight information
- AIP, Supplement and NOTAMs
- Radio frequencies
- Selection of alternate aerodromes
Aeroplane documentation
Notification of the flight
- Pre-flight administrative procedures
- Flight plan, SARTIME, closure
- Supervision of solo cross-country
- Sign-out procedures
Organisation of cockpit
- Navigation equipment
- Watch/stopwatch
- Phone, money, coat, overnight bag
Departure
- Published departure procedures
- Controlled aerodromes
- Unattended aerodromes
- Start point procedures
- Gross error check, WHAT check
En-route
- Altimeter settings, Area QNH
- ATC liaison in controlled airspace
- R/T procedures outside controlled airspace
- Maintenance of heading, altitude and speed
- Time management; 6-minute markers, ETAs, time between fixes
- Use of map, identifying features
- Track error and heading corrections
- Time corrections
- Regaining track, Standard Closing Angle
- Navigation Log maintenance
- Fuel monitoring and recording
- Turning point procedures
- Use of radio, flight information service
- Minimum weather conditions for continuation of flight
- In-flight decision making
- Transiting controlled airspace, MBZs
- Danger and restricted areas, other hazards
- Weather avoidance procedures
- Diversion procedures
- Uncertainty of position procedure
- Lost procedure
- Inadvertent entry into IMC
Arrival and aerodrome joining procedure
- Published arrival procedures
- Controlled aerodromes
- Unattended aerodromes
- Altimeter setting
- Standard overhead join
- Entering the circuit
- Circuit procedures
- Ground movement, signage, crossing runways
- Parking
- Securing the aircraft
- Refuelling
- Closing of flight plan, if appropriate
- Post-flight administrative procedures, occurrence reporting
Appendix 2 Sign-out checklist
