ATC Flight Plan

Presented by
Rashid Nawaz | Taimoor Zia | Laiba Ali
 General Rules
• When completing a flight plan the following rules apply:
• Use capital letters, one letter in each space of the field (unless field
are not divided into spaces)
• Adhere to the prescribed formats and manner of specifying data
• Data should only be inserted only in the fields and spaces provided
• Where excess space is available, leave unused spaces blank
• All times should be clock times in 4 figures UTC (e.g., 1800, 0930,
etc.)
• Special characters may not be used in ICAO remarks: the forward
slash “/”, the dash “-“, and the left and right parentheses “(” and “)”
• Items preceding item 7 are to be completed by ATC and
COM services
• Items 7 to 18 should be completed by you
• Item 19 completion is to facilitate alerting of Search and
Rescue
• These items (Items preceding item 7) will be
completed by ATC
• Aircraft Identification –
• Insert AP A/C ID – e.g. APBNA
• No hyphens or spaces
• Flight Rules
• I for IFR
• V for VFR
• Y for IFR first, then VFR
• Z for VFR first, then IFR
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• Type of Flight
• G - General Aviation
• M - Military
• D – DVFR
• X - Other than any of the defined categories above
• Number
• Number of aircraft in flight, if more than one.
• Type of Aircraft
• C172, C182, GA8, B737

• Wake Turbulence Cat

• “L” for Light (< 15,500 lbs)
• Medium (M) (300,000 lb)
• Heavy (H) 136,000 kg <= x
• Equipment
• Must show Equipment and capabilities for:
• Navigation
• Transponder
• ADS-B
• Navigation (before the slash)
• To simplify filing, the code “S” can be included to indicate Standard
Capabilities - VHF RTF/VOR/ILS. Removes the need to list these three
capabilities separately.
• Other Codes
• B - LPV (APV/SBAS) - Localizer Performance with Vertical Guidance
(Satellite based augmentation)
• D - DME - Distance Measurement Equipment
• F - ADF - Automatic Direction Finder
• G - GNSS – GPS (When using the letter “G” on an IFR flight plan,
the GPS receiver must be IFR approved)
• ATC RTF SATCOM (Multiple) – Satellite phone
• L - ILS - Instrument Landing System
• O - VOR - VHF Omnidirectional Radio Range
• R - PBN - Performance-Based Navigation
• V - VHF RTF - VHF Radiotelephone
• Y - VHF 8.33 - 8.33 kHz Radio Channel Spacing (Where you can select the
3rd decimal place when tuning in a frequency (e.g. 122.975 vs. 122.97))
• Z - OTHER - Other Item(s) Not Listed Above – specify in item 18
• N - No navigation, communications, or approach capability
• Departure Aerodrome
• Put in departure airport code – e.g. OPLA
• If the airport identifier is not a four-
character ICAO identifier, then put “ZZZZ”
in the departure airport field. The non
ICAO identifier must be specified in Field
18
• Time
• Planned time of departure (UTC) in 24-
hour “HHMM” format
• Cruising speed in Knots
• “N” for Knots, followed by a four-digit figure – N0110
• Speed used is for the first or the whole cruising portion of the flight
• Level – Flight Level (for the first leg or the whole route)
• F - for Flight Level in 100s of feet (three digit)
• A - for plain altitude in 100s of feet (three-digit)
• A065 = 6,500 feet msl
• V - uncontrolled VFR (number field left blank)
• Route
• No change from current
• If the departure airport is not on, or is not connected to the ATS route,
insert the letters DCT, followed by the joining point of the first ATS route
and followed by the designator of the ATS route – e.g. DCT ELA V198 …
• Then insert each point at which either a change of speed or level, a
change of ATS route, and/or a change of flight rules is planned
Example: ELA/N0120A080 IFR (which means that at ELA VOR you are to
change speed to 200 knots, altitude to 8000 feet and request to change flight
rules to IFR).
• Destination Aerodome
• Put in destination airport code – e.g. KSGR
• If the airport identifier is not a four character
ICAO identifier, then put “ZZZZ” in the
destination airport field. The non ICAO
identifier must be specified in Field 18
• Total EET
• Estimated time enroute HHMM - NOT the
planned time of landing
• Alternate Aerodrome
• Put in alternate airport code – e.g. KSGR
• Alternate Aerodrome
• Put in second alternate airport code
• The sequence that indicators should appear in is
compulsory
• Any given indicator can only appear ONCE in Field 18
• Hyphen (-) and slash (/) characters forbidden in data
• STS/ indicator is not a free-text field
• Search and Rescue = STS/SAR
• PBN/ is now mandatory to detail Performance based
navigation equipment capabilities
• NAV/ entry is required when GPS equipment is
specified
• If your flight plan is for a future date, make sure
that the date is provided clearly in item 18
(preceded by “DOF/”)
• You may file a flight plan up to 120 hours before
your estimated departure time
• The date of the flight in a six-figure format-
YYMMDD
• DOF/170613 (which indicated that the flight will take
place on 13th of June 2017)
• Endurance
• Total fuel endurance in “HHMM” format
• Persons on Board
• Total number of persons (passengers and crew)
• “TBN” (To Be Notied) if number is unknown at
filing time
• Emergency Radio
• Select “UHF” or “U” here if you are able to
receive and xmit at 243.0MHz,
• “VHF” or “V” if you are able to receive and xmit
at 121.5 MHz
• “ELT” if an emergency locator beacon is
onboard
• Survival Equipment
• Check if equipment is present
• Jackets
• Click if life jackets are on-board
• Select “LIGHT” if life jacket(s) have lights
• Select “FLUORES” if jackets have fluorescein
strips
• Select “UHF” or “VHF” if jackets are radio
equipped
• Dinghies (liferafts)
• Number
• Blank if none otherwise enter number of rafts
• Capacity
• Total aggregate capacity, in persons, of all life
rafts carried
• Blank if none
• Cover
• Check this box if the life rafts have protective
canopies
• Color
• Plain text description of the life raft’s primary
color.
• Plain text description of aircraft color and any
significant livery markings or characteristics
• “Red white blue CAP logos”
• Indicate any other survival equipment carried
and/or other remarks specifically regarding survival
equipment and search-and-rescue (SAR)
information
• Name and preferably phone contact information of
the pilot in command
• Doe 713-555-1212
• To be completed by ATC