To introduce the student to cross-country procedures that include flight planning, pilotage and dead reckoning, navigation systems, diversion to an alternate airport, and lost procedures.

1. Flight Lesson 16 complete? Yes

Copy of lesson placed in student’s folder? Yes

2. Preflight briefing

3. Review items

Navigation systems/facilities, Short-field takeoffs and landings, Emergency descent, Soft-field takeoffs and landings, Emergency approach and landing, Forward slip to a landing, Systems and equipment malfunctions, Wind shear avoidance, Emergency equipment and survival gear, Wake turbulence avoidance

4. New items

Aeronautical charts -PH 9

Chart Supplement, Notice to Airmen (NOTAM), and other publications -PH 9

National Airspace System -PH 3

Route selection -FM 6; PH 11

Navigation log -PH 11

Obtaining weather information -FM 5; PH 8

Determining performance and limitations ­FM 8; PH 5; POH 2,5

Flight deck management -FM 12

Weight and balance computations -PH 5; POH 6

Human factors -FM 10; PH 6

Filing a VFR flight plan -PH 11;

CFI Course interception -FM 29

Open VFR flight plan -CFI

Pilotage and dead reckoning -FM 28; PH 11

5. Postflight critique and preview of next lesson

VFR radar services, as appropriate -FM 29;PH 3

Setting power and fuel mixture -POH 4, 5

Estimating in-flight visibility -CFI

Operational problems associated with varying terrain features during the flight -CFI

Recognition of critical weather situations -CFI

Computing groundspeed, ETA, and fuel consumption -PH 9

Obtaining in-flight weather information -PH 8

Unfamiliar airport operations -CFI Lost procedures -FM 31; PH 11

Diversion to an alternate airport -FM 30; PH 11

Closing a VFR flight plan -PH 11; CFI

Additional items at CFI’s discretion

The lesson will have been successfully completed when the student, with instructor assistance, is able to perform the cross-country flight planning and fly the planned course making necessary off-course corrections and computing groundspeed, ETA, and fuel consumption. The student will display the ability to navigate by means of pilotage and dead reckoning and by any other navigation system. Additionally, the student will understand how to perform lost procedures and a diversion to an alternate airport.