3.4.2. Flight Plans

Designed to be used by the course delivery team, Flight Plans are the detailed instructions for running the course. We use them every time we run the course and consider them to be the most important part of the material we are making available.

We are also constantly improving them based on feedback from the course delivery teams. You’ll see that the flight plans are versioned. You can find the change log at the bottom of this page.

Don’t feel you need to update to every version. Check the change notes to see if you want to update your version. Most of the time the changes are small and we hope helpful.

If you’re delivering a course for the Foundation you’ll be using the latest versions of the flight plans.

Using the Flight Plans

We distribute the flight plans as PDFs. If you want to edit them you can just open the PDF in Word.

The Foundation has historically used Word files stored on Sharepoint, which allowed the delivery team to all work off the same copy. We’ve phased this out and are using our dedicated app, Active Flight Plans, to provide different views of the same data to different members of the delivery team. This also allows us to edit and track changes to the flight plans.

If you’re delivering on your own, there’s no need to worry about all this, just use Word or Google Docs (we’ve tried spreadsheets and slide decks and they don’t work as well).

If you’re working as part of a team use Sharepoint or Google Drive to give you a real-time collaborative document.

Getting the Flight Plans

To get the latest flight plans, go to https://bettercourses.org/flightplans and choose the version, page size, and style you want. You’ll then get an email with the PDFs attached, customised especially for you.

Historic Flight Plans

As of September 2024, we’re no longer updating the change log here.

If you want to know what’s changed, from version 3.0 onwards you can check out the GitHub repository.

If you need a copy of the flight plans before version 3.0, please contact us.