San Carlos Flight Center

Students and new pilots are increasingly flying with computer tablets, and using software that replaces paper charts and documents with the digital equivalents. These applications, such as ForeFlight, are extremely powerful and have a plethora of features. For a pilot just beginning to use ForeFlight, the choices and options seem overwhelming. Valuable features and capabilities

It's always amazing to see how much variety can come from only a handful of instrument approach navigation systems. This month’s IFR Approach Plate Lunch approaches into Salem, OR are a geometrical seesaw. There’s an ILS approach on one runway and a localizer backcourse approach on the opposing runway, and it looks as though you

The Flight Center will be hosting a Right Seat Workshop for non-pilot friends, spouses, and significant others who often fly right seat SCFC pilots. Now is the time to alert the people in your life to sign up for this special workshop. Right Seat Workshops are introductory and intended to demystify aspects of flight for

On November 3rd, Daylight Savings Time will end, and with it comes early nightfall.  For those of us who work a regular 9-5 schedule, early nightfall means an increase in night flying time.  How current are your night skills? Maybe it’s time to focus on what is different between day VFR and night VFR flight.

Are you a teenager interested in aviation but not sure where to begin? Are you looking to share your passion with aviation with other like minded young people? The Flight Center invites all high school students to attend this workshop to learn about aviation. This event provides you the opportunity to discover the steps of