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I’ve done a few thousand flights in small airplanes and have spent an hour on flight planning maybe handful of times, and those were 8 hour routes in an airplan
by travisjungroth 7y ago
I’ve done a few thousand flights in small airplanes and have spent an hour on flight planning maybe handful of times, and those were 8 hour routes in an airplane without GPS. 99% of times flight planning do not and should not take an hour.
- FabHK 7y agoFair enough. I've mostly flown cross country to new destinations out of the Bay area and south, and with SFO, SJC, OAK, LAX etc. around you do want to plan your route reasonably well. And yes, the GPS can warn you when you're about to fly into some airspace, but I prefer to plan it as if I didn't have a GPS. But you're right, most pilots on most flights probably do not take an hour to flight plan - but that's often because they've done so before.