This flight planning form from the AOPA Air Safety Foundation includes space for weather notes from your preflight briefing, a flight log, and FAA flight plan form, as well as a handy pilot report (pirep) template.

Only need a flight plan form, without all the extras? The FAA has just the document for you.

If you're planning a flight that ends or begins outside of the United States and its territories, you'll need to use the international flight plan form.

Have you seen or experienced an unsafe situation in the national airspace system? File this report with NASA's Aviation Safety Reporting System. Doing so can result in a waiver of sanction if you've inadvertently violated a federal aviation regulation.

Compiled by AOPA's Airport Directory, this listing includes direct toll-free numbers for automated flight service stations — handy if you need to reach a specific facility (to check local notams, for example) by cell phone from outside your home calling area.

Need to contact an air traffic control tower, a terminal radar approach control, or an air route traffic control center? Here are the numbers you need, compiled by the AOPA's Airport Directory staff and organized by city and state.