The document outlines the responsibilities of Air Traffic Control (ATC) in managing aircraft movement, issuing instructions, and providing critical information to pilots. It details the requirements for submitting ATC flight plans, including types of flights that require them and the necessary timing for submission. Additionally, it discusses procedures for amending flight plans and the concept of repetitive flight plans used by airlines for regularly scheduled flights.

1. FLIGHT PLANNING FPG 1204
“CHAPTER 3:
ATC FLIGHT
PLAN.”

2. ATC RESPONSIBILITY
• Issue landing and takeoff instructions to pilots
• Monitor and direct the movement of aircraft on the ground
and in the air, using radar, computers, or visual references
• Manage communications by transferring control of
departing flights to traffic control centers and accepting
control of arriving flights
• Provide information to pilots, such as weather updates,
runway closures, and other critical information
• Alert airport response staff, in the event of an aircraft
emergency

3. WHAT IS ATC FLIGHT PLAN
• An ATC flight plan is a document which provides
specified information to air traffic service units
relative to an intended flight or portion of a flight of
an aircraft. (ICAO Annex 2: Rules of the Air).

4. WHAT IS ATC FLIGHT PLAN
• Detailed rules regarding submission, contents,
completion, changes to, and closing of a flight plan
are contained in ICAO Annex 2 (Rules of the Air) and
in national flight information publications. (see
CAAM E-AIP)
• A flight plan may be filed as a written document, an
electronic document, or may be filed verbally.
• The operators, dispatcher and ATC hold a copy of
flight plan.
• After FP have been signed by dispatcher, dispatcher
needs to brief to pilot

5. A flight plan shall be submitted prior to
operating:
• any flight or portion thereof to be provided
with air traffic control service;
• any IFR flight within advisory airspace;
• any flight across international borders.
WHAT IS ATC FLIGHT PLAN

6. CONT.
• any flight within or into designated areas, or
along designated routes, when so required by
the appropriate ATS authority to facilitate the
provision of flight information, alerting and
search and rescue services;

7. CONT.
• any flight within or into designated areas, or along designated
routes, when so required by the appropriate ATS authority to
facilitate co-ordination with appropriate military units or with
air traffic services units in adjacent States in order to avoid the
possible need for interception for the purpose of identification;

10. VFR Flight plan form

11. Submission of a flight plan
(GENERAL)
• Prior or before to departure or when ever the
aircraft want to take-off.
• Should be submitted in person or by telephone to ATS
reporting office at the departure aerodrome.
• Except when other arrangement have been made for
submission or repetitive flight plan.
• During flight
• Normally be transmitted to the aeronautical
telecommunication station serving the ATC unit in
charge of the flight information region. (FIR)

12. WHEN TO SUBMIT ATC FLIGHT PLAN
(AS PER CAAM)
The flight plan shall be submitted by the operator or pilot-in-
command to the nearest ATC unit.
At least 180 minutes prior to ETD for the following:
• Flights departing Malaysian airports whose destinations are
outside Malaysia.
• Flights departing Peninsular Malaysia airports for Sabah/Sarawak
and vice versa.
At least 60 minutes prior to ETD for the following:
• Flights operating within Peninsular Malaysia.
• Flights operating within Sabah and/or Sarawak.

13. ACKNOWLDGEMENT OF ATC FLIGHT PLAN
(AS PER CAAM)
• In the event of a proposed delay of 30 minutes or more to the
departure time for a flight plan when a flight plan has been
previously filed, the pilot-in-command or his representative will
be required to notify ATC of the revised ETD. Where applicable
the flight plan should be amended or a new flight plan submitted
by the pilot-in-command and the old flight plan cancelled.
• A pilot-in-command may change from an IFR flight plan to a VFR
flight plan by reporting 'CANCELLING MY IFR FLIGHT' when
weather conditions indicate that the remainder of the flight can
be conducted under VFR.

14. ACKNOWLDGEMENT OF ATC FLIGHT PLAN
(AS PER CAAM)
When it becomes evident that flight in VMC in accordance with its current flight plan will
not be practicable, a VFR flight operated as a controlled flight shall:
a. Request an amended clearance enabling the aircraft to continue in VMC to
destination or to an alternative aerodrome, or to leave the airspace within which an
ATC clearance is required; or
b. If no clearance in accordance with a) can be obtained, continue to operate in VMC
and notify the appropriate ATC unit of the action being taken either to leave the
airspace concerned or to land at the nearest suitable aerodrome; or
c. If operated within a control zone, request authorization to operate as a special VFR
flight which is to request clearance to operate in accordance with the instrument
flight rules.

15. Acceptance of a flight plan
The first ATS unit receiving a flight plan, or change
thereto, shall:
1. Check it for compliance with the format and data
conventions
2. Check it for completeness and to extent possible for
accuracy
3. Take action, if necessary to make it acceptable to
the ATS
4. Indicate acceptance of the flight plan or change
thereto, to the originator.

16. Repetitive Flight Plan (RPL)
• A repetitive flight plan (RPL) is a flight
plan related to a series of frequently
recurring, regularly operated individual
flights with identical basic features,
submitted by an operator for retention
and repetitive use by ATS units. (ICAO
Annex 2: Rules of the Air)
• RPLs are routinely used by most airlines
for regular scheduled flights which
operate over the same route at least
once a week.

18. EXERCISE
• What do you understand from ATC flight plan?
• Choose any route below and prepare a mock IFR &
repititive flight plan document for the route:
1. KUL – SIN (Waypoint: WMKK – SADON – BATAR –
OGAKO – TOPOR – LELIB – BIDUS – WSSS)
2. KUL – PEN (Waypoint: WMKK - VKL9 – AGOSA –
BILIK – SUKAT – NURLA – KENDI – WMKP
3. KUL – KBR (Waypoint: WMKK – PIBOS – GUGIT –
ARALI – BIXOR – EPKOR – MIMOS – WMKC)