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Before a flight As a pilot, before you take off, you need some information. Here is how to get it. General information Wheather report Notams AIP Sup LF-R and D zones. Sending a Flight Plan   SOFIA : the main tool is unavailable Sofia was supposed to be a unique website providing pilots with Notams, Sup AIP, weather, airports charts and so on..., directly from the French civil aviation authority. It opened at mid July 2021. But technical problems appeared immediately and the site closed again a few days later, temporarily hopefully. So we will have to wait a little more to use it. In the meantime the former websites Olivia (for NOTAMS and Flight Plans) and Notamweb which had been shut down have been reactivated. Weather report In France, the metorological office in charge of predicting weather is Meteo France, a state owned company. It provides a quite comprehensive set of predictions for pilots : METAR (actually not a prediction, as you must know) TAF, SIGMET, SPECI, TEMSI and wind maps. To get this information, you have several ways : by phone If you speak French, you can call 08 92 68 10 13 (0,34euro/mn if you call from France) and get a VFR wheather report. It is updated 3 or 4 times a day. France is divided in 14 parts, and you are requested to dial the number of one of the 95 French departements. You will then get : a general situation report, including dangerous phenomenons and winds, a forecast for the region, and finally a precise and detailled forecast of wheather, visibility and clouds for the part of France to which belong the departement you choose. You can also try the 08 99 70 12 15. It'll be more expensive, (1,35euro and 0,34euro/mn) but then, you'll actually talk, not to an answering machine, but to a real previsionnist, specialized in aeronautics. by internet You will find the same information as used to be available by fax. You will need a code which you can get for free provided that you are a pilot. Just use this direct adress : aviation.meteo.fr/. For general forecasts try one of these: Meteo France : the general forecast page for France. La chaine météo A private cable TV channel providing forecasts up to 10 days. But you should know that long term forecasts are not reliable. If you want real time information about the location of thunderstorms, use this great German site, Blitzortung. in-flight Of course, you can have meteo reports and forecasts when you are airborne. Several airports have ATIS broadcasting the METAR on the airport, in English also. No more VOLMET in France. These answering machines used to air METARS and SPECIS for several aiports in France. Considering that they are not useful any longer, the DGAC has decided to try and suspend this service. This experiment began in March 2021 and will last until the end of this year. Depending on the feed back by pilots and users, the suspending will become (or will not become) permanent. This was made public by a NOTAM (LFFA-F0756/21). Finally, you can contact the CIV, (In flight information centers). You will find their frequencies on your charts, and they'll be able to give you information if you need them. We have a few meteorological special phenomenons which you shoud be aware of, since you might encounter them in our sky. Notams French notams are available on the internet, using OLIVIA which is an official source. Olivia is available in english. By Phone: call your destination airport or the BRIA, aeronautical information regional office. BRIA Phone Fax LILLE 03 20 16 19 65 03 20 87 51 44 BALE MULHOUSE 03 89 90 26 12 or 15 03 89 90 26 19 LYON 04 72 22 56 76 or 77 or 78 04 72 23 80 67 MARSEILLE 04 42 31 15 65 04 42 31 15 69 NICE 04 93 21 38 18 04 92 29 41 32 AJACCIO 04 95 22 61 85 04 95 23 59 69 TOULOUSE 05 62 74 65 31 or 32 05 62 74 65 33 BORDEAUX 05 56 55 80 47 or 48 05 56 55 80 04 NANTES 02 40 84 84 75 02 40 84 80 39 LE BOURGET 01 48 62 53 07 01 48 62 72 07 or 6504 for PLN AIP Sup This information is available in English on the official SIA web page. LF-R and D zones Don't forget to call the phone numbers indicated on your 1/1000000 charts if you have to cross dangerous or restricted zone to know whether they're active or not. Click here for more details. Air Force high speed low height zones (RTBA) France has a large network of military zones where very high speed, low height flights are conducted. When active, these zones are forbidden to all non air force aircraft beacuse the air force pilots do not enforce the "see and avoid" rule. To know which of these Air Force zones are active, you should use the SIA website But this is valid only for the zones belonging to the RTBA. Other zones may be active (civil, Army, Navy ones...) so you have to check the Notams as well. (RTBA stands for Réseau très basse altitude meaning very low altitude network. They are operated by the Air Force only.) FPL In France, you must file a FPL in several cases: you fly IFR (obvious, no?) you fly Night VFR you fly above the sea, at a distance preventing you to glide back to land should an emergency occur (For exemple, you fly from mainland France to Corsica) you cross a border even if you don't have to clear customs. if you fly to or from several airports, as an aftermath of 9/11th, you have to call or send a fax before you set off. The flight plan must be filed at least 20 minutes before you take off, and 30 minutes for night VFR or border crossing. Don't forget to cancel your FPL if you cancel your flight. To fill and send a flight plan you can use the internet with Olivia a phone or a fax. Call or fax the BRIA which is the closest to you, if you can't fill the FPL on your airport.. Of course, you can also go to the "bureau de piste" of your airport, if it exists, or to the tower, to fill manually your FPL. To close your FPL, if it was not possible to close it on the radio, call the CIV (in flight information center) related to your arrival airport.  CIV  Phone  BORDEAUX  05 56 47 95 01  MARSEILLE  04 42 33 76 76  PARIS  01 69 57 66 61  BREST  02 98 44 79 63  REIMS  03 26 05 03 08 Beside these numbers, a unique phone number to close your flight plan H24 from everywhere in France is now available: 0810 IFR VFR. (0810 437 837). Good news : calls to this number are charged at the local rate, no matter how far you are from the CIV. General information on airfields nav3000.free.fr offers many useful features for pilots. There, you can discover which airfield to use to go where you want to go (say, Chambord, for exemple, where there are no airfields), get practical and aeronautical information about this airfield (provided by pilots) with a link to the offical SIA chart if available for this place, get Notams (provided by the official service : SIA), wheather forecast, plan your route, calculate drift or horizon, know when the VFR day ends.... Try it. Almost 700 french airfields or strips are available. The site is based on information sharing between pilots.