San Carlos Flight Center

The women student pilots, pilots, and flight instructors of San Carlos Flight Center are coming together to begin forming a Women in Aviation chapter for San Carlos.  You are invited to meet the group and share your love of aviation at a meeting on Wednesday, April 16th at 7 PM. The activities for this first

For a private pilot who learned to fly in a C172 Skyhawk, stepping up to the Cessna 182 Skyland is a good challenge to broaden your skills. The larger engine allows you to take more passengers and luggage, and cover longer distances faster.  As a natural extension to the Cessna 172, the Cessna 182 shares

SCFC is hosting EAA Chapter 20 for their Young Eagles event on January 18th. Learn more about Young Eagles from the EAA’s website.

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

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

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

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

It seems so simple, right?  Make a record of your flights so that you can prove you meet the FAA experience requirements for certificates and ratings and to you have recent flight experience for carrying passengers.  Of course, any new pilot quickly learns that there are many confusing details encountered flight logging.  Are logbooks different

Instrument rating refers to the qualifications that a pilot must have in order to fly under instrument flight rules (IFR). It requires additional training and instruction beyond what is required for a private pilot certificate or commercial pilot certificate, including rules and procedures specific to instrument flying, additional instruction in meteorology, and more intensive training