Before a flight is cleared for takeoff, flight plans need to be filed with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Flight plans indicate the plane’s planned flight path, and generally include information such as the departure and arrival airports, the estimated time en route, an alternate airport in case of bad weather, the cruising airspeed, and the starting and ending fuel amounts.
The person responsible for creating the flight plan for a flight at an airline is called a dispatcher. At the end of this activity, you will play the role of a dispatcher to create a flight plan for a flight that has been chartered to fly to a music festival.