Fuel requirement for IFR flight

mastermags

mastermags

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Just a technical question. If you file an alternate in your flight plan even when an alternate is not legally required (weather better than 1-2-3), are you still required to have fuel to reach your destination, then your alternate, and then fly an additional 45 minutes?
 
mastermags said:
Just a technical question. If you file an alternate in your flight plan even when an alternate is not legally required (weather better than 1-2-3), are you still required to have fuel to reach your destination, then your alternate, and then fly an additional 45 minutes?
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No. 14CFR91.167.
 
91.167 says fuel requirements for flight in IFR conditions. If you are not in IFR conditions I cant see why you'd have to.
 
91.167 says fuel requirements for flight in IFR conditions. If you are not in IFR conditions I cant see why you'd have to.
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He didn't say he wasn't in IFR conditions.

If you are in IFR conditions and you actually file an alternate, I would say carry the fuel legally required (thinking in terms of what the FAA might say/ask during a ramp check or investigation).

Interestingly, you're never even required to file an alternate in the first place, no matter what the weather.
 
EatSleepFly said:
Interestingly, you're never even required to file an alternate in the first place, no matter what the weather.
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91.169 says otherwise!!

§ 91.169 IFR flight plan: Information required.

(a) Information required. Unless otherwise authorized by ATC, each person filing an IFR flight plan must include in it the following information:
(1) Information required under §91.153 (a) of this part;
(2) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this section, an alternate airport.
(b) Paragraph (a)(2) of this section does not apply if :
(1) Part 97 of this chapter prescribes a standard instrument approach procedure to, or a special instrument approach procedure has been issued by the Administrator to the operator for, the first airport of intended landing; and
(2) Appropriate weather reports or weather forecasts, or a combination of them, indicate the following:
(i) For aircraft other than helicopters. For at least 1 hour before and for 1 hour after the estimated time of arrival, the ceiling will be at least 2,000 feet above the airport elevation and the visibility will be at least 3 statute miles.
 
Doh! :eek: I stand corrected! I must have been thinking of center-stored flight plans, where you don't have to add an alternate. Thanks Lloyd! Nevermind me, I'll stay out of the CFI Forum from now on... haha.
 
LOL . . . no, you can still come in here!:)

After 1630, next Friday, I may have to stay out of the CFI forum, too . . .

There's that other forum, though . . . :p
 
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