Modes and Codes - All About ADS-B and the ICAO Flight Plan Form

[@Sullivangrosz]

This is incredibly helpful. Thank you!

[@SethLakeDPE]

You're welcome!

[@Flyinghorus381]

Wonderful video, thank you. Question, How do I know which aircraft TSO is my aircraft ?

[@RodrigoFerreira-iw2kr]

Very helpful! thanks for that

[@SethLakeDPE]

👍

[@TheDuckofDoom.]

I have never met a CFII that teaches complete ICAO-style use of an IFR flightplan, and never had [FAA-]ATC reject an ICAO form that only contains the basic info that is found on an old-style domestic IFR plan. (I'm not saying this is a fully acceptable teaching practice, but that is a common practice even at 141 schools.) And anyway the FAA's adopted use of the ICAO form is not 100% ICAO-compatible processing anyway. Not that the ICAO version is all that great either, as the format is a bit of a haphazard mess of arbitrary fields and vague redundancies. It would be nice if the FAA released a comprehensive guide to formally fill it out, with complete definitions and explanations of examples (the quick reference cheat sheet doesn't cut it). For example, ICAO wants any planned delays at a fix (eg holds or just a block for practicing instrument maneuvers) in field 18. The FAA system will ignore or totally discard the "DLE/xxx..." syntax in field 18, and wants delays included within the field 15 route list using a different syntax.

[@SethLakeDPE]

You have a good handle of things. I agree with you on all of your points. I will say that ForeFlight has the best guide I've come across for filling out the ICAO form.

[@coelho5br]

Very nice! In the field 18( other info) the FAA sheet and foreflight does not let select Z at the field 10a if you don’t have NAV, COM or DAT at field 18, but I don’t know what options would be there. Any idea?

[@SethLakeDPE]

You're correct, Z is only displayed when you have appropriate equipment selected in section 10

[@coelho5br]

@@SethLakeDPE Thank you and awesome job with the videos

[@erictallberg1601]

Any chance the "Follow up questions" can be answered here in the comments?

[@SethLakeDPE]

Absolutely!