What are the required documents that must be on board in order for the airplane to be airworthy?

A – Airworthiness Certificate
R – Registration
R – Radio Certificate (required for international flights)
O – Operators Manual (Pilots operating handbook doesn’t count)
W – Weight and Balance (current and specific to your airplane)

Weather reports and forecasts

wind

temperature

Trip Information:

fuel requirements

alternatives available 

Airport Information:

runway lengths

airport elevation

runway slope

IPAD

METAR

TAF

Weather Breifer

NOTAM (D) – Distant and serious NOTAMs

A NOTAM given distant dissemination beyond the area of responsibility of Flight Service Station FSS. NOTAM Ds contain information on all civil public use airports and navigational facilities that are part of the National Airspace System, and are serious enough to affect whether or not an airport or a certain facility is usable.

NOTAM (L) – A NOTAM given local dissemination by voice and other means to satisfy local user requirements. It includes such data as taxiway closures, personnel and equipments near or crossing runways, and airport lighting aids that do not affects instruments approach criteria, such as VASI.

FDC NOTAM – The National Flight Data Center will issue these NOTAMs when it becomes necessary to disseminate information that is regulatory in nature, and they contain such things as amendments to published IAPs and other current aeronautical charts. They are also used to advertise temporary flight restrictions caused by such things as natural disasters or large-scale public events that may generate congestion of air traffic over a site.

An AIRMET (AIRman's METeorological Information) advises of weather that maybe hazardous. >3000 miles

• (IFR)
• Ceilings less than 1000 feet and/or visibility less than 3 miles affecting over 50% of the area at one time.
• Extensive mountain obscuration

AIRMET Tango 

• (Turbulence)
• Moderate turbulence
• Sustained surface winds of 30 knots or more at the surface

• (Icing)
• Moderate icing
• Freezing levels

• Severe thunderstorm due to:

• surface winds greater than or equal to 50 knots
• hail at the surface greater than or equal to 3/4 inches in diameter
• tornadoes

Area forecasts (FA's):

• Issued 3 times daily
• Valid for 18 hours (12 hour forecast, plus 6 hour categorical outlook)
• Cover an area the size of several states

Header

precautionary statement section

synopsis section

VFR CLOUDS/WX section

2 fuel takes in the wings, gravity through the strainer, to the egnine.

The carburetor mixes fuel and air.

If high humidity or low temprature, could get carb icing which would be a drop in RPM and is fixed by adding carb heat which redirects some exchaust from the engine to thaw the ice.

2 electrical bus - alt and battery, alt charges battery.