Since my flight to Charleston I have flown only 16.7 hours. This is light for me as I average about 20 hours per month. Also, this is the first time in many months that I have no long cross-country flights planned. I have a couple of sub 100 mile flights on the schedule but nothing that takes any sort of in-depth planning.
This is unfortunate as I find flight planning to be quite enjoyable. I have fond memories of sitting over a VFR chart, plotter in hand, planning a route with fuel stops. More often I now fly IFR direct by way of the GPS but I still enjoy the process of looking at proposed routings on SkyVector or RunwayFinder. I do my flight planning on FltPlan.com these days as it gives me the option to print out itineraries and to file flight plans directly from the website. For weather, I use web templates provided by Scott Dennstaedt in addition aviationweather.gov. I still stop by duat.com or duats.com for my official briefing but its rare that I discover anything in the official briefing that I did not find elsewhere.
Well, chances are reasonable that I will make a last minute flight to Minneapolis this month or next so my lust for flight planning may be satisfied again soon.
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