2 3 2 AreaRoute Briefing Procedures Faa Form

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here at flight insight we always like to think of our plan b so let's plan an ifr flight here in the mid-atlantic to talk about alternates we're going to depart college park airport in maryland and head for ocean city on the south jersey shore with the direct route it's 110 nautical miles and our cessna doing 100 knots should make that distance in 66 minutes how much fuel do we legally need to have on board you might remember vfr fuel minimums from private training and ifr fuel requirements aren't too much different far 91.167 a is what we're looking for to know this it says that we have to have enough fuel to go to our destination airport then our alternate airport then an additional 45 minutes of flight at cruise speed it's very similar to the nighttime vfr minimums except for this addition of an alternate which we don't see in vfr cross-country fuel planning so what is an alternate it's a plan b if for whatever reason we can't land at our intended destination it could very likely be