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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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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
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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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Right Seat Workshop #2 Flight Instruments and Controls
Right Seat Workshop #2 Flight Instruments and Controls
Does the inside of the cockpit start to look like the control room for a nuclear power plant? Seriously, do they need all those instruments and gadgets? Which one are you supposed to watch? Will there be some warning if something is not right? Pilots are given extensive training in how to read flight instruments
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Full Moon Flyers and Top Shelf Bay Tour
Full Moon Flyers and Top Shelf Bay Tour
Join the FlyOutGroup (FOG) on Wednesday, February 12th, with a scenic trip to Watsonville (WVI) for dinner followed by an incredible overflight of the Bay Area at 10,000 feet! We’ll join for dinner, and then plan on flying a “Top Shelf” Bay Tour as we circumnavigate the Bay above the Class Bravo. At Watsonville, you
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