VFR flight planning guides for Spain

• How to plan a VFR flight in Spain, step by step

  Plan a VFR flight in Spain from route to nav log: reporting points, winds aloft, fuel, terrain, NOTAMs, METAR and TAF, and exports for your GPS.

• How to read a VFR nav log, column by column

  What each column of a VFR navigation log means, which ones you read in flight, which ones are planning figures, and how a leg row is built.

• Wind correction angle and ground speed, with an example

  How the wind changes your heading and your ground speed, with worked examples, a quick mental estimate and the way a nav log shows it for every leg.

• VFR fuel planning: taxi, trip, contingency and reserve

  How the fuel for a VFR flight is made of taxi, trip, contingency, alternate and final reserve, how to work out the endurance, and how to plan it in a nav log.

• Plan a VFR flight around sunrise and sunset

  How to check daylight at both ends of a VFR flight, what civil twilight means, how to work back from sunset, and what to change when you would land late.

• Export a VFR route as GPX, Garmin FPL, PDF or ICAO

  What each AirPlotter export contains, when to use GPX, Garmin FPL, the nav log PDF or the ICAO flight plan, and how to check a route after you load it.