The Filed Flight Plan

In aviation, a flight plan is optional—if you're flying VFR. Clear skies, good visibility, you can see where you're going. Many pilots fly that way. It works fine... when conditions are good.

But when you're in LIFR conditions—Low IFR, ceilings down near minimums—you file a flight plan. You brief the approach. You know your decision altitude, your missed approach procedure, your alternates. You trust your instruments, follow the glideslope, and stay configured. Because when you're at 200 feet AGL waiting to break out, the planning, coordination, and skill you put in before departure is what gets you down safely.

That's where America is right now. We're not at zero visibility—we're close to breaking out. But we're in LIFR conditions, and too many people are flying without a plan, without a brief, hoping they'll see the runway before they run out of altitude.

This is our filed flight plan. We've done the preflight. We've briefed the approach.

We've assessed current conditions. We've charted a route based on first principles—the same principles in our Proclamations. We know our decision points, we've identified the obstacles, and we're committed to a destination: a nation where liberty, opportunity, and self-governance aren't just rhetoric, but reality.

Every article we publish connects back to this plan. Not because we're rigid, but because when you're in the soup, you need to know what you're flying toward—and what you'll do when you break out.