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Originally Posted by flygirl39  Couple of quick questions:
1. If i decide to make a flight say from my home airport to just go out and do some sight seeing would/should you open a flight plan? There would be no stops inbetween. The distance would be say 20 to 30 NM away from the home airport.
2. Using the same numbers above can I get Flight Following for this or is Flight Following just for when you are going from one airport to your destination airport. I am not sure if they will help if a pilot is just going out to see some sights.
Thank you again for everyone's help  |
I'm not sure if you're a student pilot vs. private pilot, for my answers I'll assume private. If you're a student, be sure to do things with approval from your CFI.
1. I personally would not file, though there's nothing wrong with opening a flight plan. Where I teach/fly, for every flight you tell dispatch where you're going and when you'll be back, so there's not much of a need for a flight plan for a local flight.
2. Yes, you can get flight following. Remember that flight following is workload permitting, so the controller can refuse or dump you at anytime; however, in my experience ATC is usually very accommodating, just tell them where you are and what you want to do and they'll help you out.