Here are some of the websites I use for flight planning

http://adds.aviationweather.noaa.gov/
www.runwayfinder.com
www.skyvector.com
www.airnav.com
www.fltplan.com

If anybody know of anymore free websites, please list it here.

 

dont forget
www.skyvector.com
or www.adventurepilot.com

 

www.duats.com for my "official" brief
Adds for radar
also this new interactive radar on weather.com
http://www.weather.com/weather/map/i...=wxcenter_maps

 

The AOPA/Jeppesen flight planner is the best one available for general aviation. Plug in your DUAT/DUATS login, and it will download your offical briefing, overlay radar maps on your route of flight, download a flight plan form you can print out and take with you, and do so much more.

 

I still love fltplan.com though...

 

I'm a member of AOPA and never knew about this. I just downloaded the app tonight and it IS awesome!!

 

This is perfect....Im starting my cross countries right now....BTW is there any particular method you guys use....I know how to calculate everything but i keep going back and forth feels like im wasting time...my instructor said it just takes practice but just wondering if you guys were tought any methods or flow chart on how to do the planning...

 

First do the grunt work of drawing the lines, getting distances/courses etc... Get your weather required for the trip, METAR/TAF/Winds Aloft/Notam's etc. Then get yourself a X-C planning sheet. There's a variety of them around, so you should find something that works for you. It should contain a "TC/MC/TH/MH/Dist/Check-points/Alt/MSA/TAS/GS/ETE/est. fuel used/est. fuel remaining" Also some bonus space is "arrival apt atis/appr/twr/ctaf/etc..." and I always had my students draw a picture of the airport with an arrow from the direction that they would be coming from. That way they could mentally picture what the airport would look like. Also we'd talk about pattern entry, taxi information if there was even taxiways' available. Also any particulars of getting fuel etc. if they need it. All the fun stuff!!!!!!! It's better to be prepared with more info than you'll ever need than to not have anything. My counter arguement to that is also that it's great to leave some things out so that the student can learn and fill in the gaps with the way that best works for them.

 

So that's what explains my flight training that semester!
Naw, you know I'm just giving ya crap.
By the way, I'm moving to Indy at the end of the month, so we'll definitely have to go out for a beer or five in September.

 

Was Ewfflyer your CFI?