What to Brief

The main article covers a lot of things to consider for your various briefings. Here, though, is a view of the items you might want to brief for each phase of your flight.

Editorial Staff

Wednesday, October 15, 2014 at 12:00 AM ET

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Key Takeaways:

Thorough pre-flight briefings are essential for every flight, encompassing critical details across various phases such as route, altitude, speed, frequencies, taxi route, runway, environment, weather, and potential threats.
Instrument approach briefings require a separate, detailed review of the approach chart, covering elements like procedure name, frequencies, route, wind/sun effects, altitude restrictions, minimums, and the missed approach procedure.
It is recommended to extract information directly from approach charts during briefings to enhance familiarity with the procedure, using chart summaries only as a final setup check.

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The main article covers a lot of things to consider for your various briefings. Here, though, is a view of the items you might want to brief for each phase of your flight.

Route: Do the fixes make sense? How do you get from the runway to the first fix? What’s your initial heading? Is there a charted or obstacle departure procedure? At the destination, is there an arrival procedure? How do you get onto the approach? Given the forecast winds, what departure and arrival runways and approach will you likely get?