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Flight Performance and Planning 4

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 342-0476/02
Abbreviation PaPL1
Course title Flight Performance and Planning 4
Credits 2
Coordinating department Institute of Transport
Course coordinator Ing. Jiří Hořínka, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1 FLIGHT PLAN BASIC COMPONENTS
1.1 Navigation plan
1.2 Fuel plan
1.3 Monitoring of flight and in-flight re-planning
1.4 Radio communication and navigation aids

2 ICAO FLIGHT PLAN
2.1 Types of flight plans
2.2 ICAO flight plan completion
2.3 Flight plan submission
2.4 Flight plan closing
2.5 Flight plan compliance

3 VFR FLIGHT PLANNING
3.1 Preparation of maps
3.2 Navigation plan
3.3 Navigation plan development
3.4 Simple fuel plans
3.5 Preparation of fuel records showing the planned value
3.6 The practice of radio-navigational resources

4 IFR FLIGHT PLANNING
4.1 Use of meteorological information
4.2 Election of the routes to the destination and alternate aerodromes
4.3 Flight planning main tasks

5 MEDIUM RANGE JETS (MRJT) FLIGHT PLANNING
5.1 Additional procedures for MRJT flight planning
5.2 Flight planning by using of IT

6 MRJT PRACTICAL FLIGHT PLAN PROCESSING
6.1 Navigation, meteorological and performance data
6.2 Navigation flight plan filling
6.3 Fuel plan filling
6.4 Supplementary calculations (CP, PET, PNR, PSR, ...)

Literature

DVOŘÁK, Petr. Učebnice pilota. Cheb: Svět křídel, 2026. ISBN 978-80-7573-169-2 .
EVROPSKÁ KOMISE. Nařízení Komise (EU) č. 965/2012 ze dne 5. října 2012, kterým se stanoví technické požadavky a správní postupy týkající se letového provozu podle nařízení Evropského parlamentu a Rady (ES) č. 216/2008 (konsolidované znění účinné od 1. 5. 2025). EUR-Lex. Lucemburk: Úřad pro publikace Evropské unie, 2025. Dostupné z: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/CS/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012R0965-20250501
EUROCONTROL. European Route Network Improvement Plan (ERNIP) – Part 1: European Airspace Design Methodology Guidelines. Brussels: EUROCONTROL, 2024. Dostupné z: https://www.eurocontrol.int/publication/european-route-network-improvement-plan-ernip.

Advised literature

PADPILOT. ATPL Flight Planning and Monitoring. Bristol: Padpilot Ltd., 2023.