ICAO Flight Plan Instructions for Domestic Flights

by | Jan 12, 2016 | All Pilots, Pilots, Student Pilots

UPDATE: The requirement for ICAO flight plans has been extended a few times now and is still not required yet

 

ICAO Flight Plan ImageIf you’ve never filed a flight plan using the ICAO format, then now is the time to learn it! In October of 2016 the old flight plan forms will be obsolete and you will be required to use the ICAO format when filing domestic flights.

How to Fill out an ICAO Flight Plan

This video tutorial should help you through the learning process. There are a few things that are different from the way you do it now, but after watching this video you should feel more comfortable. Of course there are online flight planning services but as a student pilot or a pilot that is trying to set up the specs of the flight planning application, you still need to know what is going on to be sure you are doing it right. I hope you enjoy the video!

 

Here is a link where you can find the designators for each aircraft as discussed in the video:

Aircraft designators on the IACO website

Here is a link to a copy of the form for you to print out from the FAA site:

Form number 7233-4 for ICAO flight plans

Please leave a comment below and share this with your pilot friends if you like it. Thanks!

 

3 Comments

  1. Chris Conte
    Chris Conte on June 30, 2016 at 11:15 am

    Joe,

    Thanks for the informative video on how to fill out ICAO flight plans. I notice it shows the paper FAA form 7233-4, but it also has dropdown lists for some fields, so it must be an online version. Is this interactive version available on your website, or where?
    Thanks,
    Chris Conte

    • Joseph Standley
      Joseph Standley on July 4, 2016 at 10:41 pm

      Certain PDF viewers don’t have the capability to use the online forms. I couldn’t find the exact link to the form I used for the video. When I open the link to the form I provide for you, I am not able to use the drop down menu items unless I download it onto my computer. Once I downloaded it, the interactive fields and drop down menus were usable but not in an online format. I hope this helps.

      Joe

  2. Lorin Kaney
    Lorin Kaney on May 1, 2017 at 5:24 pm

    Thanks for the helpful video! I noticed that when selecting equipment in box 19, you mention it backwards. The correct procedure is to only mark out the equipment that is actually on board.

    Nevermind! I read it backwards. There are different providers that do it differently but you had it correct for the format your using. Not sure why it has to be so confusing