VFR India Grand Tour Flight Plan Pack

The India Grand Tour is a full clockwise circuit of the subcontinent by light aircraft, departing the historic Safdarjung airfield in the heart of Delhi and returning to it twenty-eight legs and roughly five and a half thousand nautical miles later, having touched every major region of the country along the way. It opens in the dense heritage belt of the Golden Triangle, sweeps east across the Gangetic plain with a deliberate detour into the Northeast at Guwahati, runs the length of both coastlines from the Bay of Bengal to the Arabian Sea, crosses the Thar Desert and the Great Rann of Kutch, threads through Rajasthan’s fort cities, and closes with a genuine mountain-flying finale through the Pir Panjal into Kashmir and the Kullu Valley before descending back to the plains. Few single tours anywhere in the world offer this degree of variety in one continuous circuit: Mughal monuments and temple cities, tropical backwaters and desert salt flats, a five-thousand-year-old holy city on the Ganges and a mid-century modernist capital designed by Le Corbusier, tea-garden hill stations and a valley ringed by fifteen-thousand-foot peaks. The route was built leg by leg from real airports and real terrain rather than an idealized straight-line grid, which means it also carries some genuinely instructive constraints — most notably that two legs in the Northeast phase had to be substantially rerouted because the direct line between endpoints crosses Bangladeshi sovereign airspace, and the tour’s final approach to Kashmir follows the actual Banihal Pass corridor rather than a straight line over terrain no light aircraft could safely cross.

Each leg contains: Flight Plan files in PLN, and GPF formats

Expansive tour guide documents in PDF and Markdown formats

Map images for every waypoint

The legs: IN-01 — Delhi (Safdarjung) → Agra

IN-02 — Agra → Khajuraho

IN-03 — Khajuraho → Varanasi

IN-04 — Varanasi → Kolkata (Behala)

IN-05 — Kolkata (Behala) → Guwahati

IN-06 — Guwahati → Bhubaneswar

IN-07 — Bhubaneswar → Visakhapatnam

IN-08 — Visakhapatnam → Chennai

IN-09 — Chennai → Madurai

IN-10 — Madurai → Trivandrum

IN-11 — Trivandrum → Kochi

IN-12 — Kochi → Mangaluru

IN-13 — Mangaluru → Goa (Dabolim)

IN-14 — Goa (Dabolim) → Mumbai (Juhu)

IN-15 — Mumbai (Juhu) → Aurangabad

IN-16 — Aurangabad → Ahmedabad

IN-17 — Ahmedabad → Bhuj

IN-18 — Bhuj → Jaisalmer

IN-19 — Jaisalmer → Jodhpur

IN-20 — Jodhpur → Udaipur

IN-21 — Udaipur → Jaipur

IN-22 — Jaipur →…