Arizona Practice Areas and Reporting Points
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Instructions and Disclaimers
Please carefully review all of the information on this page.
This page contains AFTW recommended practice area reporting points and procedures for the Phoenix-area, Northern Arizona, and Southern Arizona. Each pilot has the responsibility for knowing and following all required FAA practices and procedures.
Always practice FAA-recommended visual scanning procedures, even when communicating on practice area frequencies and utilizing ADS-B traffic information.
Remember that not all pilots know about these practice area frequencies and reporting points.
Please direct any pilots who are operating in the Phoenix-area to this site.
ForeFlight and Garmin Pilot GPS Overlays
Option 1: All Practice Areas in one overlay
- One file to download and import
- All practice areas are displayed together
- AFTW All Practice Areas – version 9 (Direct Link / Google Drive Link) – Updated 1-5-2020
- Notes and FAQs
Option 2: Separate overlays for each practice area
- This option provides the ability to select which practice areas are displayed
- Foreflight allows multiple overlays to be displayed at the same time
- Garmin Pilot only allows one displayed overlay at a time
- AFTW Northwest Practice Area – version 9 (Direct Link / Google Drive Link) – Updated 1-5-2020
- AFTW Northeast Practice Area – version 9 (Direct Link / Google Drive Link) – Updated 1-5-2020
- AFTW Southwest Practice Area – version 9 (Direct Link / Google Drive Link) – Updated 1-5-2020
- AFTW Southeast Practice Area – version 9 (Direct Link / Google Drive Link) – Updated 1-5-2020
- AFTW Lufthansa Practice Area – version 9 (Direct Link / Google Drive Link) – Updated 1-5-2020
- AFTW Rainbow Valley Practice Area – version 9 (Direct Link / Google Drive Link) – Updated 1-5-2020
- AFTW Northern Arizona Practice Areas – version 9 (Direct Link / Google Drive Link) – Updated 1-5-2020
- AFTW Tucson Practice Areas – version 9 (Direct Link / Google Drive Link) – Updated 1-5-2020
Other Overlays
VIDEOS: How to Download and Use the Overlays
ForeFlight
Garmin Pilot
Practice Area Videos
Thank you to Emmanuel Tempelman for providing these excellent videos!
- Northwest Practice Area Video
- Northeast Practice Area Video
- Southwest Practice Area Video
- Southeast Practice Area Video
- Rainbow Valley Practice Area Video
Northern Arizona Practice Areas and Procedures
PDFs of Phoenix Practice Area Charts
- Northeast Practice Area
- Northwest Practice Area
- Southeast Practice Area
- Southwest Practice Area
- Lufthansa Practice Area