Today, it is common practice for active pilots to use an electronic flight bag (EFB), typically a tablet with an aviation app like ForeFlight or Garmin Pilot, among others. One of the advantages of an EFB is the ability to store information about specific aircraft. Information about onboard equipment can easily be stored and used when filing flight plans without entering the same information every time. As an instrument flight instructor, I’ve found that equipment flight plan codes stored in EFBs are commonly incorrect. Let’s dig deeper into the codes.
Our focus is on the two blocks dealing with equipment in the Flight Plan (FAA Form 7233-4): Block 10: Equipment and Block 18: Other Information. Note that since the old domestic flight plan was dropped in August 2019, it is now just the Flight Plan; let’s drop the “ICAO” and “International” monikers.
