Event Details and Registration

Planning a flight through Southern California airspace can be a complex process, and we’ve all had hypothetical conversations around decision making, when to file IFR vs VFR, routing decisions, go / no-go decisions, etc. In this seminar, Nello and Alessandro Franco will share the real-world experience from an actual multi-leg trip to San Diego and back. In the context of a real trip, this father (pilot) and son (aspiring pilot) will share how they made decisions, planned, briefed (and de-briefed), and how they used Foreflight, a Stratus2 and CloudAhoy to assist in the process.

Nello Franco is a Bay Area native with over 700 hours of flight experience. He holds a commercial multi-engine airplane certificate and an instrument rating. He has been flying in the Bay Area since 1995, although he took a 15 year hiatus. He has flown multiple long cross country flights to Southern California, Oregon, Missouri, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Colorado. He has taken the opportunity to go flying when on vacation or work trips and has flown GA in Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, and Italy.

Alessandro Franco is a volunteer at San Carlos Flight Center, has assisted and managed the video production of a number of Flight Safety seminars, and assisted in the reconfiguration of the new hardware for the Flight Center’s GNS430 Flight Sim.

In December, Nello and Alessandro flew to Southern California on a college tour in a C-182. Their route took them from from SQL-SBA-CMA-MYF-HHR-SBP-SQL.  In this seminar, they’ll share how they made their decisions on route planning, how they decided which segments would be flown IFR or VFR (or in some cases, both), how they handled the curve balls thrown by Air Traffic Controllers in SoCal, real world Terminal Enroute clearances, their learnings from a tour of HHR Tower and other differences encountered between NorCal approach and SoCal approach and airspaces.

This event qualifies for FAA Wings credit.

Any questions, contact us at (650) 946-1700 or info@sancarlosflight.com.

San Carlos Flight Center is committed to promoting safety in general aviation through our evening safety seminar programs. Space is often limited so it is important to sign up early through the FAA event notification system at FAASAFETY.GOV. SCFC members may choose to watch the seminar live over the web at home. Contact your SCFC member service rep at (650) 946-1700 to confirm secure online access to any particular seminar.

Directions to Room: Pilots who fly in should park in transient parking on the opposite side of the field and expect to walk about 10 minutes (.5 mile) to the Flight Center. Suite 215 is upstairs in the northwest corner. On occasion, rides may be prearranged through San Carlos Aviation and Supply.

San Carlos Flight Center was voted Best Flight School in the US in the 2013 AOPA Flight Training Excellence Awards. We are committed to promoting safety in general aviation through our evening safety seminar programs. For more information about this and any of our weekly seminars, please visit http://sancarlosflight.com/activities-and-events.