Students
What's in Fax's Flight Bag?
My bag is the Flight Gear "Mission Bag". It is small and easy to carry on any flight, and you will be amazed at what it can hold...
Here is what is in my bag at the moment:
- iPad - go get one now. The single most significant innovation in general aviation since the GPS
- Lightspeed Zulu headset, battery powered. Wonderful. Bluetooth capability lets me call for clearances easily at non-towered airports
- Garmin 496 with RAM suction mount, XM weather antenna and power cord
- Icom handheld aviation radio, with headset adapter
- iPhone/iPad power cord with cigarette lighter adapter
- Spare batteries (the Zulu is awesome until the batteries die, then it is awful)
- Red laser pointer for pointing things out on the panel without reaching across my student
- Foggles
- Husky multi-tool, with multiple screw driver bit attachments
- Mechanical pencils (pens blow up and leak at altitude. They also freeze.)
- Pilot certificate, medical certificate and ramp badge
- Various size pads of paper: 3X5, 5.5X8.5 (same size as kneeboard) none bigger needed for any imaginable clearance copying and note-taking requirements
- ASA IFR kneeboard with Vspeed cards taped to it for various aircraft
- IFR Flight File Instrument Flight Chart Planner and Organizer (holds approach plates in static-hold chart protectors)
- Holding pattern computer
- Washington DC sectional and SFRA rules and flight planning cheat sheets
- Hi-liters, for marking up charts
- Petzl E+Lite red and white headlamp
- Advil, suntan lotion, sterile eye drops
- Leatherman micra
- Couple squares of velcro
- Carbon Monoxide detector (for use in other people's airplanes)
- Hangar keys
- Orion Flight Center business cards