SCFC Events
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PIREPs: Love Them or Lose Them
PIREPs: Love Them or Lose Them
Want to know what is actually happening up at altitude? The best way to get that is to hear from pilots who are up there. Pilot reports (PIREPs) are a crucial part of the weather picture. It doesn’t matter if we’re flying VFR or IFR, PIREPs are the nowcast of aviation weather: what’s actually happening out
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What I Learned about Rudder Coordination in my First 600 Hours as a Flight Instructor
What I Learned about Rudder Coordination in my First 600 Hours as a Flight Instructor
The process of becoming a better pilot never ends, as SCFC Flight Instructor Henrik Vanitegem found out. Despite accomplishing his private, commercial, and flight instructor certificates, and accumulating hundreds of hours of flight time, there is so much more still to learn. Many instructors find that their own flying reaches a new plateau after the
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Ground School Refresher: VFR Charts
Ground School Refresher: VFR Charts
VFR charts pack an extraordinary amount of material and represent a 3-dimensional world of terrain and airspaces in 2 dimensions. With such a wealth of information, do you really know how to read them? For example, do you know how to identify where certain VFR reporting waypoints are on a chart? Or can you
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SCFC Welcome Night
SCFC Welcome Night
If you're recently joined the Club, you may have only met your instructor and one of our Front Desk agents. It's time to meet some other students and pilots. Join us on Thursday, February 13th at 6:30pm for San Carlos Flight Center's Welcome Night to start the new year off right. We'll welcome in our
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2025-02 IMC Club SQL
2025-02 IMC Club SQL
NOTE: Since this event will involve active discussion, it will be held over Zoom and not broadcast via Livestream. Please RSVP by 12pm on the day of the seminar to receive Zoom meeting info via email before the event starts. Most pilots like analyzing scenarios and trying to answer the age old question of what
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Approach Lighting Systems
Approach Lighting Systems
You are on glidepath descending towards the runway and as you break through the clouds, you see the bright approach lighting systems verifying you’re on path to the runway. With so many different types of lighting systems, colors, and positions, do you really know their significance? San Carlos Flight Center invites CFII Brian Eliot to
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IFR Alternates
IFR Alternates
It is a typical day in the Bay Area with low ceilings. You are instrument current and ready to depart. Filing your IFR flight plan you hesitate for a moment on the field for alternate airports. You ponder for a moment to remember when are pilots required to file an alternate airport? What constitutes an
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Prospective Pilot Workshop
Prospective Pilot Workshop
Are you interested in aviation but not sure where to begin? Are you looking to find out more about becoming a pilot with a group of others like yourself? San Carlos Flight Center invites all prospective pilots to attend this workshop to learn about what it takes to become a part of general aviation. This