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• Aeronautical Information Manualp. 5-1-10
  Chapter 5. Air Traffic Procedures › Section 1. Preflight › 5-1-5. Flight Plan - VFR Flights

  Pilots may take advantage of advances in technology by filing their flight plans using any available electronic means. Activating the flight plan will ensure that you receive VFR Search and Rescue services. c. When a stopover flight is anticipated ... recommended that a separate flight plan be filed for each leg of the flight. d. Pilots are encouraged to activate their VFR flight plans with Flight Service by the most expeditious means possible. This may be via radio or other…

• Aeronautical Information Manualp. 5-1-18
  Chapter 5. Air Traffic Procedures › Section 1. Preflight › 5-1-15. Canceling IFR Flight Plan

  Closing VFR/DVFR Flight Plans A pilot is responsible for ensuring that his/her VFR or DVFR flight plan is canceled. You should close your flight plan with the nearest FSS, or if one is not available, you may request ... facility to relay your cancellation to the FSS. Control towers do not automatically close VFR or DVFR flight plans since they do not know if a particular VFR aircraft is on a flight plan. If you fail to report…

• Aeronautical Information Manualp. 4-3-24
  Chapter 4. Air Traffic Control › Section 3. Airport Operations › 4-3-18. Taxiing

  Taxiing a. General. Approval must be obtained prior to moving an aircraft or vehicle onto the movement area during the hours an Airport Traffic Control Tower is in operation. 1. Always state your position on the airport when calling ... tower for taxi instructions. 2. The movement area is normally described in local bulletins issued by the airport manager or control tower. These bulletins may be found in FSSs, fixed base operators offices, air carrier offices, and operations offices…

• Aeronautical Information Manualp. 4-3-30
  Chapter 4. Air Traffic Control › Section 3. Airport Operations › 4-3-25. Flight Inspection/‘Flight Check’ Aircraft in Terminal Areas

  Strobe lights should not be illuminated during taxi if they will adversely affect the vision of other pilots or ground personnel. f. At the discretion of the pilot-in-command, all exterior lights should be illuminated when taxiing ... across any runway. This increases the conspicuousness of the aircraft to controllers and other pilots approaching to land, taxiing, or crossing the runway. Pilots should comply with any equipment operating limitations and consider the effects of landing and strobe lights…

• Aeronautical Information Manualp. 5-1-16
  Chapter 5. Air Traffic Procedures › Section 1. Preflight › 5-1-9. Single Flights Conducted With Both VFR and IFR Flight Plans

  Single Flights Conducted With Both VFR and IFR Flight Plans a. Flight plans which combine VFR operation on an active VFR flight plan for one portion of a flight, and IFR for another portion, sometimes known as a composite flight ... plan, cannot be accepted or processed by current en route automation systems. b. Pilots are free to operate VFR in VFR conditions prior to accepting an IFR clearance from the appropriate control facility, or may cancel an IFR clearance…

• Risk Management Handbookp. 3-4
  Chapter 3: Identifying Hazards & Associated Risks › Using the PAVE Checklist to Identify Hazards › Pilot Hazards

  Using the PAVE Checklist to Identify Hazards As described in Chapter 1, the PAVE checklist provides a means to identify hazards using four convenient hazard “buckets.” Using all four checklist categories before a flight captures most hazards normally encountered. This ... classified in terms of both capability and aeromedical factors as follows: 1. Qualification–Does the pilot possess the appropriate pilot certificate, category, class, and type rating needed to operate a specific aircraft under the given set of conditions? Some accidents…