Trillian?



"Roy Smith" wrote in message
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| "Cirrus" wrote:
| I usually only file my last name, and have never
received a single
| question by the briefer about it. Do any of you know if
you are
| supposed to file first and last name?
|
| I don't know of any regulation which requires you to put
down two names in
| the PIC box. Some things are left to common sense. It's
also not the
| briefer's job to enforce regulations. If you tell him the
PIC's name is
| Zaphod Beeblebrox, he'll type Zaphod Beeblebrox into the
box on the screen.
| Maybe your name is "The student pilot formerly known as
Prince"?
|
| Also I had always assumed (as
| mentioned by some of you) that the name only ever
mattered if there was
| an incident. Barring any incidents, do any of you know
if ATC/FAA ever
| even looks at the name on any flightplan?
|
| ATC only sees some subset of the fields you file in your
flight plan. I
| don't remember exactly which ones they get (everything up
to the REMARKS
| section?), but the PIC's name isn't one of them. All that
stuff about home
| base, souls on board, paint color, etc, is purely for SAR
and accident
| investigation purposes.