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206A - Low EnRoute Charts & IFR Clearances

Pre-Lesson reading list

  • AIM Chapter 4, Section 4 (ATC Clearances & Aircraft Separation)
  • IFH Chapter 8, Section 2 (IFR En Route Charts)
  • IFH Chapter 9 (ATC System)

IFR Flight Plans

Flight plan required for all IFR operations in controlled airspace. (Not required for class G airspace)

Should file your IFR flight plan at least 30 minutes prior to departure (AIM 5-1-8)

IFR Low Altitude EnRoute Charts

  • “Road maps for IFR pilot” – to/from SID-STAR
  • Ops below 18,000ft
  • Airways, limits of controlled airspace, VHF navaids, airports (with communication info), MEA’s, OCA’s, airway distances, reporting points, SUAs, military training routes
  • Scales vary from chart to chart (1in = 5nm to 1in = 20nm)
  • Revised every 56 days

IFR Clearances

Publications

IFR Reporting Points

courses/206a/clearances.txt · Last modified: 2019/04/26 15:30 by evan