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"Night Flying"
Wednesday, October 14, 2015 19:00 Pacific Daylight Time

Located at:
San Carlos Flight Center
655 Skyway Road
Suite 215
San Carlos, CA 94070

Description:

In just a few weeks, Daylight Savings Time will be ending, and with it brings early nightfall.  For those of us who work a regular 9-5 schedule, early night fall 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.

Join NAFI Master Ground Instructor Herb Patten for a review of the benefits and challenges of night flying.

Obviously, less ambient light adds challenges for anything requiring eyesight.  This includes preflight inspection, taxi safety, obstruction avoidance, IMC recognition and avoidance, cockpit resource management, and a number of others.  Most familiar to pilots is probably the differences in landing.  The sight picture of a normal approach to a runway is very different with reduced external visual cues from night.  Flashing lights can help or hurt pilot attention and recognition.

So should night flight be avoided?  Not necessarily.  Night flight brings with it reduced ATC workloads, often calmer winds, cooler temperatures that help performance, and the ability to spot traffic from farther off.  Your decision about flying at night can be aided by attending a Night Flying Refresher seminar like this one.

 

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