Articles

• Mountain Flying. Planning a mission or siteseeing trip to a mountain airport soon? Check out Cap'n Jim's article on some considerations to make your flight safe and enjoyable.
• Flying into SFO. Not many of us have flown into San Francisco (SFO), but they support Angel Flight's efforts. Marty shows us how!
• Angel Flight Call Sign. Just when you got used to the COMPASSION call sign a new call sign is adopted. Read about the new ANGEL FLIGHT call sign that is the same as the COMPASSION call sign but helps to promote Angel Flight and its mission.
• Flying to the Letter - CRAFT. Have you ever listened to a controller rattle off your IFR clearance so fast your pencil burned up? Read this feature to see if your next clearance can be a piece of cake.
• Survival Kit. At an Angel Flight Brunch Meeting, a list of items that should be in a survival kit was presented. Read the list to see what you should have on board for every flight.
• Big Brother Is Listening. Some airports are very serious about their noise abatement procedures. Read about one pilot's experience after departing the Santa Monica Airport.
• Flying to the Letter - BARMATH. We have all learned some acronyms to remind us of checklist items. Read this first installment in a series of aviation acronyms.
• Time to Descend. Every flight has got to come to an end this time. A sign of a good pilot is their ability to smoothly descend from an enroute environment to the traffic pattern altitude. Follow along with easy arithmetic to determine a simple formula that determines how far away from the airport one should begin their descent.