When charting a flight plan, is weather your primary concern...>>?

Question

or is it more about the air traffic ?

Answer 1

I'd always check to see how wet the conditions will be and then I'd make it my business to know just how much "traffic" there really was.

Answer 2

Its more about the safety for me............x

Answer 3

  Weather is always your primary concern if you are traveling by air and filing a flight plan.

Answer 4

No it should be where you intend to be when you land

Answer 5

To 'Plan' the flight first consideration is fuel and payload.  If that works you check route, weather and alternates.  Yes avoid congestion if possible.  

Answer 6

It really depends on if you are planning on filing a VFR or an IFR flicht plan.

Answer 7

Weather, route (I like most direct, and avoiding special use airspace.) and wind. -- that's the priority.

I used to flight instruct in Minnesota, and often people from my area would travel "over" Chicago enroute to Ohio or other points east. ATC's reaction to how flight plans were filed became very predictable.

If you want to try a nice experiment, file your flight plan direct so it goes straight through class B airspace (Be IFR or on flight following.)

ATC will then route you FAR outside their class B airspace.

On the return, file from your origin, to a waypoint just outside class B airspace, then to your destination.

You will then almost certainly get exactly what you ask for.

That's the difference on how the people who know what they're doing are treated vs, those who don't know what they're doing.