WorkingHard,
You are wrong.
At least in my case, and I suspect I'm not unique. I've been away for a week, and I'm only just catching up on life in general, and that includes PPRuNe. It's the height of the holiday season; give people a chance.
Slowsafecruise,
Excellent thread, and a good reminder of what flight plans are for. Something I'd like to add. Once, way back, I filled in a flight plan form, then realised I couldn't get to my planned destination (fog or something; can't remember). I picked another airfield in the same area, and just changed the ICAO designator on my flight plan. I forgot to change the ETA...and the flight was about half an hour longer. Add to that the increased headwind (sod's law of course), and when I arrived they were considering starting to look for me!
Moral of this tale; always check over your flight plan before you file it! In my case, embarrassment and wrist slapping were all that occurred. But the mistake could have been the other way round; I could have been heading for somewhere closer than originally planned, been in trouble, and no-one would have realised until much later.
