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Landing Games – Teaching Past Student Roadblocks
Landing Games – Teaching Past Student Roadblocks
This seminar will only be available for online viewing. IN-PERSON ATTENDANCE WILL NOT BE PERMITTED.** Click here to learn more about online viewing As a flight instructor, you are expected to produce a safe, competent student pilot that has all the required knowledge, skills, and good decision making. Interestingly, each item is built up
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Instrument Approach Plates
Instrument Approach Plates
This seminar will only be available for online viewing. IN-PERSON ATTENDANCE WILL NOT BE PERMITTED.** Click here to learn more about online viewing Instrument pilots develop familiarity with instrument approaches based on a review of the approaches they typically fly. There is a lot of similarity among the information contained in the majority of
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Ground School Refresher: Weather Theory
Ground School Refresher: Weather Theory
This seminar will only be available for online viewing. IN-PERSON ATTENDANCE WILL NOT BE PERMITTED.** Click here to learn more about online viewing Weather can play a huge factor in any pilots pre-flight planning and actual flight. Weather is a complex subject that can affect an aircraft's performance, ability to generate lift, along with
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Truckee Airport Operations
Truckee Airport Operations
This seminar will only be available for online viewing. IN-PERSON ATTENDANCE WILL NOT BE PERMITTED.** Click here to learn more about online viewing **For information, flyers, and handouts referenced during this presentation please click here.** Truckee Airport is the gateway to Lake Tahoe. The spectacular views of Lake Tahoe are a short flight away,
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You’re Not the Only Pilot in the Sky
You’re Not the Only Pilot in the Sky
This seminar will only be available for online viewing. IN-PERSON ATTENDANCE WILL NOT BE PERMITTED.** Click here to learn more about online viewing The radio frequency is a precious and shared resource, with every pilot on frequency hearing everyone else’s good, bad, and ugly transmissions. Radio skills are essential but often not taught or
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How Flight Sim Training Improved my Radio as a Pilot
How Flight Sim Training Improved my Radio as a Pilot
This seminar will only be available for online viewing. IN-PERSON ATTENDANCE WILL NOT BE PERMITTED.** Click here to learn more about online viewing Speaking on the radio with ATC embodies a lot of a pilots workload. Sometimes pilots like to speak too much while transmitting on frequency, leading to frequency congestion, confusion, and can
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How I Prepared for My Private Pilot Checkride
How I Prepared for My Private Pilot Checkride
This seminar will only be available for online viewing. IN-PERSON ATTENDANCE WILL NOT BE PERMITTED.** Click here to learn more about online viewing For most pilots, the first checkride is the most intimidating one. It can be a nerve-wracking experience decoding the ACS and sitting through the glare of the designated pilot examiner. Have
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Upwind Year End Event
Upwind Year End Event
Summer of Upwind has ended, Checkride dates are set, and we are ready to celebrate another successful year of the Upwind Scholarship Program! Please join us to congratulate both the Upwind Class of 2022 on everything they have achieved. We will be hosting their families and friends outside in our half-hangar, so come on out
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Preventive Maintenance at a 50-Hour Service
Preventive Maintenance at a 50-Hour Service
In November of last year, SCFC presented a seminar in which we reviewed the types of things a pilot can do that qualify as preventive maintenance. Now, we will revisit the topic in the context of a real-world 50-hour service done on a regularly flying aircraft. San Carlos Flight Center invites A&P Tim Davis to
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The Green Book – What’s New in the Chart Supplement
The Green Book – What’s New in the Chart Supplement
This seminar will only be available for online viewing. IN-PERSON ATTENDANCE WILL NOT BE PERMITTED.** Click here to learn more about online viewing Pilots sometimes refer to the FAA Aeronautical Chart Supplement as the “Green Book” due to the color of the printed book. This reference is rich with details about airports, and is
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Planning a Flight with ForeFlight
Planning a Flight with ForeFlight
This seminar will only be available for online viewing. IN-PERSON ATTENDANCE WILL NOT BE PERMITTED.** Click here to learn more about online viewing ForeFlight is a useful tool for many pilots as it provides a number of tools a pilot might need to plan a flight, obtain a weather briefing, and track their flight