LIBRARY 121 · SPOKEN CHAPTER 114 · 1:52
Opening your flight plan
Address Flight Service as Radio.
Your scenario
You are flying Evektor, registration N827EV. You are airborne after departing runway 16L, indicated altitude 1600 feet. You are tuned to Seattle Radio. The simulated Radio channel is 122.2. Your planned destination is Jefferson County.
Practice goals
- Address Flight Service as Radio.
- Supply departure time and flight-plan identity.
- Do not confuse activation with radar service.
Respond aloud during each ten-second practice window, then compare with the example. Replay any exchange you want to practice.
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- 0:00 NARRATOR: Chapter 114. Here is the scenario: You've departed with a filed VFR flight
- 0:05 plan. Practice contacting Flight Service to activate it.
- 0:10 NARRATOR: Your starting details: You are flying Evektor, registration N827EV. You are
- 0:16 airborne after departing runway 16L, indicated altitude 1600 feet. You are tuned
- 0:23 to Seattle Radio. The simulated Radio channel is 122.2. Your planned destination
- 0:29 is Jefferson County.
- 0:33 NARRATOR: Play the pilot. At each prompt, use the ten-second pause to respond aloud or
- 0:38 decide whether to transmit. Then compare with the example. This is simulated radio
- 0:43 practice.
- 0:46 NARRATOR: Your task: Your VFR flight plan to Jefferson County is filed but inactive. Your
- 0:51 actual departure time was 1655 Zulu. Contact flight service to activate it.
- 1:05 PILOT: Seattle Radio, Evektor 827EV, receiving on 122.2 near Paine Field, request
- 1:11 activate VFR flight plan to Jefferson County, departed at 1655
- 1:17 FSS: Evektor 827EV, VFR flight plan activated, departure time 1655
- 1:35 PILOT: departure time 1655, flight plan activated, Evektor 827EV
- 1:42 NARRATOR: Chapter debrief: VFR flight plan activated; this does not establish radar
- 1:47 service.
- 1:49 NARRATOR: If you enjoyed this video like and subscribe
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