Elements and Performance Criteria
- Determine aircraft meets requirements for NVFR flight
- Obtain and use current operational documents
- Prepare flight plan for NVFR flight
- Charts suitable for intended NVFR flight are selected and prepared
- Applicable information to prepare a flight plan which details tracks, distances, times, altitudes to be flown and fuel requirements to reach destination are obtained, analysed and applied
- Meteorological, airways facilities, aerodrome and NOTAM information applicable to planning and conducting a flight is obtained, interpreted and applied
- Routes to optimise options in the event of an engine failure are planned
- Determine operational requirements
- Suitability of the aerodrome lighting for night operations is determined
- Curfew requirements are complied with
- Duration of flight is determined
- Holding, alternate and reserve fuel requirements due to weather, navigation aid availability and aerodrome lighting are determined in accordance with operational requirements
- Total fuel requirements are calculated
- Make flight notification
- Program navigation system