FltPlan.com is a website that serves the general and corporate aviation community. Founded in 1999, it originally concentrated on flight planning. Its services now include flight tracking, e-APIS submissions, Safety Management Systems(SMS), GPS RAIM predictions, and an FAA-approved weather service.

Flight Plan LLC
Type of site
Flight Planning
Available inEnglish
OwnerGarmin
URLwww.fltplan.com
Commercialyes
Launched1999; 25 years ago (1999)

Overview

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The website provides information and tools used by more than 85,000 active pilots to create, file and manage flights within the U.S., the Bahamas, Bermuda, Puerto Rico, Canadian, and Mexican airports.[1] The site assists in the creation of professional IFR flight plans and navigational logs. It provides IFR routing, winds aloft, aircraft performance, an airport database, frequencies, FBO information and recommended alternates.[2]

It was voted Best in Online Weather in the 2008 and 2009 Professional Pilot PRASE surveys.[3]

E-APIS

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In April 2009, the site announced its e-APIS (electronic advance passenger information service) manifest submission service. FltPlan.com was the first service to receive certification from the US Department of Homeland Security and Customs & Border Protection.[4] Benefits of this service include integrating with flight plans, storage of passenger, aircraft, aircraft owner and crew information for e-APIS submissions. The service can be accessed from any web browser.[5]

Callsign

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Fltplan
IATA ICAO Call sign
DCM DOT COM
Commenced operations2011
Parent companyGarmin
HeadquartersTrenton, Tennessee
Websitefltplan.com

The site offers customers the ability to block tracking of their aircraft and flights by giving them flight numbers like an airline.[6][7]

References

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  1. ^ Business Wire, Tuesday, January 13, 2009 http://www.allbusiness.com/company-activities-management/operations-customer/11748116-1.html[dead link]
  2. ^ Merry, John A.(2001). Aviation Internet Directory, McGraw Hill, page 149.tml
  3. ^ Professional Pilot/July 2009
  4. ^ "Private Air APIS CBP-Approved Service Providers"
  5. ^ "Pireps". Archived from the original on 2010-11-29. Retrieved 2009-08-19.
  6. ^ Flying in Private
  7. ^ "DCM Call Signs Versus FAA Blocking". flttrack.fltplan.com. Retrieved 5 October 2019.