Guides

Guides for student and VFR pilots

Plain-language guides to the planning and weather decisions behind a VFR flight, written for people who are learning them. Each one is written to be followed step by step.

Written for training. Rules and figures differ between countries and operators, so check them against your own regulations, your school’s manual and your instructor.

How to plan a VFR cross-country flight

The whole planning job in the order most instructors teach it: route and airspace, weather, true course to compass heading, groundspeed, fuel and reserves, terrain and NOTAMs.

How to read a METAR and TAF

What every group in a weather report means, how a forecast changes through the day, and how to turn both into a go or no-go decision for a VFR flight.

More guides will be added here. If there is something you would like explained, tell us.

VectorEFB is a flight bag that shows the weather, airspace and terrain for your route and does the navigation arithmetic. See the student page or the pilot page.