How to plan a flight to an airport only a few miles away?

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wesyin
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How to plan a flight to an airport only a few miles away?

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Yesterday I had a job to fly several fseconomy passengers from KNSI to KSAN and KMYF. KSAN and KMYF are a few miles apart under their Bravo and Delta air spaces, respectively. I did the KNSI-KSAN leg by picking up VFR FF in the air. It went well. Once offloading a few passengers at KSAN, I had no idea how to plan the KSAN-KMYF leg in PE. :roll: I disconnected PE and did it offline in a 5 minute VFR.

If I plan for a short IFR flight, I don't want to file a SID, fly thirty miles out, and then come back. Is there a better way?

If I plan for a VFR flight, can I expect the controller to let me do something almost as simple as flying a traffic pattern except I will quickly switch frequency to talk to the other tower and land in their field?
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Re: How to plan a flight to an airport only a few miles away

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The simplest way is vfr with flight following. Simply ask for that from clearance at Lindbergh-easy
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wesyin
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Re: How to plan a flight to an airport only a few miles away

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Ryan B wrote:The simplest way is vfr with flight following. Simply ask for that from clearance at Lindbergh-easy
Thanks. I will try it out this weekend while testing the new x-plane PE plugin.
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Re: How to plan a flight to an airport only a few miles away

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Sounds like useful advice for a couple of the Alphabet Challenge flights, too. (KONT-KPOC comes to mind).
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Re: How to plan a flight to an airport only a few miles away

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Have you ever used application for that?
You can find IFR planner and instructor app, or navigation app.
http://www.flygoo.net/
I use these for example, but there are lot of similar app.
it was helpful?
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