Originally Posted by
techn1k
Currently, my instructor checks and corrects my flight plan if needed, but my concern is that once I get my PPL, I’ll have to rely entirely on myself. Do pilots still ask others to check the flight plan after obtaining their PPL?
You will build confidence as time passes, trust me, it does come. You might want to lean on your training provider for guidance but you will find after time you start making the decisions yourself.
Instead of it becoming a ‘hey instructor can you check my plans to see if I’ve made an error’, it’s more a ‘here are my plans for today’. They might ask you some weather questions or if you have checked ERSA for anything.
You will head out on your own with your own plans, things won’t go to plan, but you will make decisions and that’s the aim of the game, decision making. You will go out and figure out you made an error in a plan or are heading in the wrong direction, but these small errors are made by all, and contribute to making you a good pilot in the longer run. I don’t recall I ever did a Nav that actually went to the plan.
Your comment about EFBs doesn’t make any sense, OzRunways isn’t just a WAC.