Common instruments on small aircraft

Mxsmanic wrote in
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For what it's worth. VFR, I don't file a flight plan, get in my plane
just like my car. The above was a VFR flight.

Where and when will they look for you if you crash?

Probably wherever you last showed up on their radar, especially if you have a
transponder, were receiving flight following, and/or called for help on the
emergency frequency.

IFR, takes 5 minutes on simple flights to 10 minutes to multi leg flights
to get everything in order thanks to computerization of planning. This
includes getting my approach plates in order, filing the plan with the
FAA.

Then it should be easy to file one for VFR flights.

It is.

Sheeze, so you don't file flight plans in your game world ...

Actually I do. Even some VFR flight plans.

That's interesting. Do you use VATSim? What is the purpose of a flight plan
in a simulation? They will certainly know where to look if you crash.