Asking for a copy of a flight plan?

[hissinsid]

I am not a flyer and nor ever will be (eye sight too poor) but I do undertake flight sim as a major hobby and whilst I absolutely respect that this doesn't scratch the surface of real flying I do take it very seriously and enjoy trying to be as close to real world procedures as I can be.

My question is; On any flight that I may travel on in the real world how would a crew react if I asked for a copy of the FP following shut down on at stand at the arrival airport please? This would then allow me to replicate my RW flights whilst on FS.

Kind regards

Sidders

[reportyourlevel]

This relates to the ATC flight plan so may or may not be of use. Have a look at the UK Flight Planning Guide (http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/33/CAP%20694.pdf) which includes a copy of the form (near the end) and comprehensive instructions on how to complete it. The UK also has a Standard Route Document (http://www.nats-uk.ead-it.com/aip/current/srd/SRDDOC.pdf) so you can use that for to work out your route. You can pretty much work out the rest yourself. This should get you pretty close to real-world flights. I can't help you with PLOGs, sorry, but I'm sure someone else will be along in a minute.

[Double Hydco]

I know some airlines have a Computer generated flight plan for each pilot.

At my company we only print one copy off in the crew room, and this is then completed and updated during the flight. Once completed, the CFP is put with the other flight paperwork and archived by the company for months, if not years (this is a legal requirement).

So the flight crew may not have a copy to give you.

Cheers, DH

[wiggy]

how would a crew react if I asked for a copy of the FP following shut down on at stand at the arrival airport please?

There'd certainly be no harm in asking.

It's possible there may be company document handling rules that prevent the crew handing over the full pilot/progress log or "plog" ( an expanded version of the flight plan with navigation, communications and fuel planning data ), but personally I can't see any such problem with you being given a copy of the basic flight plan, which we carry as an attachment to the plog and which outside agencies such as ATC obviously get to see anyway.

Make sure you make your request before landing because some airlines allow the pilots to junk all their paperwork on shutdown - our's go in the bin even before the passengers are disembarked, though copies of the original documents, as issued, are kept on database at head office.

[tom6326]

www.edi-gla.co.uk

[markc80]

vataware :: Homepage (http://www.vataware.com/)

Plenty of flight plans there, also Google VATSIM and IVAO