{"id":151,"date":"2013-10-14T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/14\/filesmart\/"},"modified":"2018-07-09T15:33:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T15:33:01","slug":"filesmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/filesmart\/","title":{"rendered":"FileSmart: Not Just for Bug Smashers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>File Accurately:<\/strong>\u00a0We pilots, by nature being both practical critters and not looking for extra work, are sometimes shooting ourselves in the foot in three ways \u2013 by filing for departure times ahead of what we really expect; by defaulting to filing \u2018GPS Direct\u2019 routings, and in some cases, by not having mastered the new ICAO flight plan format required for all IFR flight plans. It\u2019s easy to imagine how each of these elements, multiplied through all the flight plans filed every afternoon in an airspace like the Northeast U.S. can gum up the works and slow things down, while the airspace managers have to sort it out.\u00a0 Thus, File Accurately.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The NAS factor:<\/strong>\u00a0FileSmart wants us to get in the habit of checking NAS status just as we check weather and NOTAMs, and responding to what we find in the same way.\u00a0 \u201cJust a mouse click away\u201d, they say, and it\u2019s almost true.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fly.faa.gov\">www.fly.faa.gov<\/a> is the place to start, then check under the Products section, for the specific sites that can tune you in (OK, so it\u2019s three mouse clicks).\u00a0 It seems fair to observe that many of us are operating without these tools in our bag, so time to \u2018get hip\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t already, give these suggestions a try.\u00a0 At the end of the day, you will decide whether there is a practical benefit based on the times, places and frequencies that you fly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent NBAA Business Aircraft Regional Forum held at Denver\u2019s Centennial Airport (APA) was well executed and fun.&nbsp; Aside from organizing and sponsoring this annual event, NBAA also had an exhibitor booth there.<\/p>\n<p>That didn\u2019t surprise me, but the subject of the exhibit did:&nbsp; the newish FileSmart program.&nbsp; I was surprised because without doing any homework, I had assumed the program was aimed at the smaller airplane end of the general aviation world, so why would they be exhibiting it at a \u2018big iron\u2019 event like the Denver Regional.&nbsp; The NBAA folks staffing the booth soon set me straight, and I promised them I would pass the word.<\/p>\n<p>The word is that FileSmart is aimed smack at the business jet, IFR audience. It is an educational initiative launched in June through the joint sponsorship of NBAA, the FAA, NATA and AOPA.&nbsp; The central elements of the idea are three: that we can do ourselves a big favor when we can file early, file accurately and file with the status of the National Airspace System (NAS) in mind.&nbsp; You can check out the program at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filesmart.org\">www.filesmart.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s look briefly at each of the three elements.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>First, File Early:&nbsp;<\/strong>Filing early is not always possible in the often fast moving world of bizav, but when we do have the option we can improve our chances of getting what we want and avoiding delays, mainly because the earlier we file, the sooner we get into the queue.&nbsp;&nbsp; When the enemy is weather and volume, it\u2019s especially important to get filed before the ground stop, ground delay, and flow control initiatives get launched.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[60,61,62],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-faa-flight-plan","tag-filesmart","tag-nbaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}