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ATC Flight Plan

What do the boxes mean and How to fill them up?


Definition of Flight Plan: Specified information provided to air traffic services units, relative to an
intended flight or portion of a flight of an aircraft.
Sample ATC Flight Plan:

What do the boxes mean and How to fill them up?


The above box is for the use of ATC and Communication Personnel.

The above box is for the use of ATC and Communication Personnel. However, for the efficiency of
workflow of the ATC personnel at Chittagong Tower, we fill it up in accordance with the intended
flight that we are planning to fly.
Usually for Local Flights that we carry out mostly, we fill up the above box in the following manner:

Note that the addressee(s) start with


VGHSZQZX (Dhaka Control), VGHSFICX (Dhaka
FIR) and VGCBZTZX (Coxs Bazar Tower) [Coxs
Bazar being the Alternate Airport]. For training
flights these are the long followed addresses.
However, while VGHSZQZX and VGHSFICX
remain the same for all flights that take place
over Bangladeshi Airspace, VGCBZTZX may not
be there all the time, as mentioned before it
was there being an Alternate Airport. It could
be VGHSZTZX (Dhaka Tower) if you were to fly
to Dhaka [VGHS] from Chittagong [VGEG].

Then you have to fill up the Originator box, which shall read the Tower to which the flight plan has
been submitted to:

Item number 7: Aircraft Identification

This is where you shall write the Registration


Mark of the intended aircraft that you want to fly; i.e. S2AEX, S2AEY or S2AEN. Note that there is
no hyphen () in between S2 and AEY.

Item number 8: Flight Rules and Type of Flight

Here you shall write either V for a VFR flight or I if an IFR flight is intended; and always write G
in the Type of Flight box.
Heres a quick reminder the VFR limits:
VMC visibility and distance from cloud minima are contained in the table below:
Airspace
Class

Altitude Band

Flight
Visibilit
y

At and above 3050 m


A**BCDEFG
8 km
(10000 ft) AMSL
Below 3050 m (10000 ft)
AMSL or above 300 m
A**BCDEFG
5 km
(1000 ft) above terrain,
whichever is the higher.
At and below 900 m (3000
A**BCDE
5 km
ft) AMSL, or 300m (1000ft)
above terrain, whichever is
FG
5km*
the higher.
Table : Visual Meteorological Conditions for VFR

Distance from Cloud


1500 m horizontally, 300 m
(1000ft) vertically
1500 m horizontally, 300 m
(1000ft) vertically
1,500m horizontally, 300 m
(1000 ft) vertically
Clear of cloud and with the
surface insight

**Note:
The VMC minima in class A airspace are included for guidance to pilots and do not
imply acceptance of VFR flights in class A airspace.
*Note:

When so prescribed by the appropriate ATS authority:


a.

Flight visibilities reduced to not less than 1500 m may be permitted for flight
operating:
(1)

At speeds that, in the prevailing visibility, will get adequate


opportunity to observe other traffic or other obstacles in time to
avoid collision; or,

(2)

b.

In circumstances in which the probability to encounters with


other traffic would normally be low, e.g. in areas of low volume
traffic and for aerial work at low levels.

HELICOPTERS may be permitted to operate in less than 1500 m flight visibility, if


maneuvered at a speed that will give adequate opportunity to observe other traffic or
any obstacles in time to avoid collision.

Fig
Classes: A, B, C, D and E Airspace
VMC Minimum Flight Visibility and Distance from Cloud

Fig Classes: F& G Airspace


VMC Minimum Flight Visibility and Distance from Cloud
Item Number 9: Type of Aircraft and Wake Turbulence Category

In
the
Type of Aircraft box you shall write down the type of aircraft you intend to fly. For Cessna 152 write
down C-152 and for Cirrus SR 20 G3 write down SR-20. Note that there is a hyphen () in
between C and 152.
The Wake Turbulence Cat is always L for our training flights.
Item Number 10 (a,b): Equipment

Consult the following table for the meaning of the letters you shall write in the Equipment box.

Item Number 13: Departure Aerodrome and Time


The Departure Aerodrome is the one you are commencing your flight from and the the time shall
always be in

UTC.

Item Number 15: Cruising Speed, Level and Route

The cruising speed shall start with N followed by 4 (Four) digits, like here for C-152 aircraft the
cruising speed is N0090. The altitude that you intend to maintain for the flight shall be written in 3
(Three) digits following the letter A. Those who will be flying routes in the Cirrus SR -20 aircraft
shall write down the desired Flight Level in 3 (Three) digits following the letter F like F060.
The route for local flights shall be VGEG-Local. When you shall fly Cross-country mission under VFR
conditions at low levels you shall write down the different legs and names of place with intended
track. For example, if you plan a cross-country mission starting from Chittagong to Chiringa, then to
Kutubdia, Bashkhali then back to Chittagong, you shall fill up the Route box as shown in the

following diagram:
When you shall file a flight plan for route flying it should be as follows. For a flight from VGEG to
VGHS at Flight Level 080 following the route G463:

Item number 16: Destination Aerodrome, Total EET, 1st/2nd ALTN Aerodrome
Item number 18: Other Information

Please consult the New ICAO flight plan format publication (Pg. 19-22). You can download a copy of
the said document at http://goo.gl/d5GFA.

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