VFR Navigation Log

Using a Paper Navigation Log

Check out the video above of an example Nav Log being filled out start to finish for a 50nm Cross Country!

In this video, step by step, we’ll go over:

• Plotting your initial course line
• Finding checkpoints that are easily identifiable
• Determining true course through use of a plotter
• Correctly filling out the nav log (incorporating top-of-climb and top-of-descent)
• Using performance tables
• Determining calibrated airspeed using an E6B
• Interpreting Winds Aloft
• Using a Time, Fuel, and Distance to Climb table
• Determining Wind Correction Angle
• Determining magnetic variation & deviation
• Determining the distance to climb
• Determining the distance between checkpoints
• Determining leg times
• Determining checkpoint arrival time
• Determining taxi & runup fuel
• Determining  fuel burn & fuel remaining
• Determining top-of-descent
• Determining the impact of wind changes