"Michael 182" wrote in message
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I'm kind of curious - does anyone with more than 100 hours do a flight
plan,
with winds and all, before they fly cross country? Most of my planning is
of
the fuel stop, or occasionally detour for weather variety - but it is rare
for me to include more than one or two waypoints in my "plan", and I
almost
never file an airway, even when I file ifr. Maybe it's because I live in
the
west. A typical flight plan will be Longmont - Amarillo - Austin, or if
the
winds are good, Longmont - Austin. What do others do?


Every flight, though they typically average about 350nm.

Loaded in FliteStar, it gives me all the weather, NOTAMS, forecasts,
winds,etc. I give it waypoints and legs then it creates worksheets/reports
that I can print out which go into a manila folder. On returns, I load it
into the laptop and have a portable color printer to print for carry-along.

Takes all of ten minutes.


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Matt
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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO