Prior Proper Planning Prevents…

Before you venture off on a cross-country flight, what is your pre-flight planning routine?

Do you watch the local weather, add just enough fuel to legally reach your destination then blast

off? Or do you call Flight Service for a standard briefing, analyze the weather yourself, and go

through all of the steps you were taught in initial flight training? Most people would probably

fall somewhere in the middle of these two scenarios. What follows is a discussion about how our

pre-flight preparations can mitigate the chances for an accident before we leave the ground.

Let’s use a cross-country sc...