Flight Planning Considerations

FAR 91.103 – Preflight Action

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NOTAMs  all available info
Weather reports and forecasts
Known ATC delays
Runway lengths
Alternates
Fuel requirements
Takeoff & landing distances

FAR 91.103 – Preflight Action

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Minimum IFR altitude
Alternate  FAR 91.169
Fuel  FAR 91.167

destination + alternate + 45 mins

Instrument procedure
Aircraft performance
Hemispherical altitude  NE-odd SW-even
Obstacles
Oxygen requirements  FAR 91.211
Preferred routes  chart supplement
Weather

FAR 91.159 – Cruising altitude

FAR 91.119 – Minimum safe altitudes

FAR 91.177 – IFR minimum safe altitudes

FAR 91.151 – VFR fuel requirements

FAR 91.167 – IFR fuel requirements

FAR 91.211 – Supplemental oxygen

FAR 91.209 – Aircraft lights

FAR 91.111 – Operating near other aircraft

• No person may operate an aircraft so close to another aircraft as to create a collision hazard
• No person may operate an aircraft in formation flight except by arrangement with the pilot in command of each aircraft in the formation
• No person may operate an aircraft, carrying passengers for hire, in formation flight