Saturday, May 19th is International Learn to Fly Day, and San Carlos Flight Center is celebrating with an open house. Click here for details. Forward this invitation to your friends, family, co-workers, your regular passengers, and anyone else who’s ever wondered what it takes to fly. San Carlos Learn to Fly Day activities start at [...]

SCAPA is happy to welcome our newest member, Hans P. Plesman, proprietor of San Carlos Aviation & Supply, LLC. Hans assumed operation of the pilot shop, located in the terminal at KSQL, in September 2011. Mrs. Joyce Maganini the previous owner of the store for more than 25 years, helped at the store until the [...]

TEMPORARY RUNWAY CLOSURE FOR CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY AT THE SAN CARLOS AIRPORT The San Carlos Airport runway and taxiways will be temporarily closed to all flight operations, for the emergency repair of South Bayside System Authority’s (SBSA) sewer line that runs under the west side of the airport, during the periods shown below: Friday night, April [...]

From SCAPA member Ettore Leale: The San Carlos airport community is invited to attend The Harvard Club of San Francisco’s May 1st event featuring Einar Enevoldson of The Perlan Project. The Perlan Project http://perlanproject.org is dedicated to building and flying a manned research glider to 90,000 feet in altitude, or “near space”, to study what [...]

San Carlos Airport Association Annual General Membership Meeting Wed. April 25, 2012 at 7:00 PM at Hiller Museum Please join us at the next SCAPA General Membership Meeting on Wed. April 25, 2012 at 7:00 PM at the Hiller Museum. We are very pleased to announce that Ed Rosiak, President of the California Pilots Association [...]

A combined EAA Chapter 639 and Half Moon Bay Pilots Association Meeting will be held on Wed. April 11th at 7:00pm at the 3 Zero Cafe. (As always, 2nd Wed. of each month at 7:00pm). We will use the meeting to plan and prepare for Dream Machines on April 28th and April 29th. Please come [...]

The Half Moon Bay Pilots Association is recruiting for aviation knowledgeable volunteers for Dream Machines on April 28 and 29. Their most pressing need is people to assist in ground control of visiting aircraft. This actually is both fun and interesting and comes with a free lunch and free entry. One or both days are [...]

Dreamliner, A Glimpse of the Future By Faride Khalaf Saturday March 24 – 11AM at Hiller Museum note: this is a Hiller event, not a SCAPA event, and will require one to pay for Museum admission In this one hour presentation, engineer Faride Khalaf will share colorful pictures that highlight the Dreamliner’s technical innovations as [...]

Special TFR #2/9296 Normal flight operations at the San Carlos Airport may be affected/modified by a Special TFR scheduled to commence at approximately: Feb. 16, 2012 at 12:15 PM PST and last until Feb. 17, 2012 at 09:30 AM PST Pilots should verify all TFR information by obtaining officially disseminated FAA NOTAMs prior to flight. [...]

The SFO Noise Abatement Office recently provided a real-time flight tracking application on their web site. Even though the data seem to be delayed by about ten minutes, the output is fascinating. If you’re interested, give it a try. But be forewarned, our laptop could not display the graphics but our desktop PC worked great. [...]

Save this date: Wed. Feb. 22, 2012 at 7PM at the Hiller Museum. We’re planning a program with presentations about various local flight training simulators, including a full motion crosswind trainer, a full motion Redbird VFR simulator, and a G1000 simulator. That should be a blast.

Thanks to the Golf Hotel Whiskey blog for posting this outstanding video that depicts the history of aviation. It’s really an advertisement for Utah Valley University’s avation program, but you don’t see that until the end.

Special TFR #2/3316 Normal flight operations at the San Carlos Airport may be affected/modified by a Special TFR scheduled to commence at approximately: January 18, 2012 at 10:45 AM PST and last until January 19, 2012 at 11:15 AM PST Pilots should verify all TFR information by obtaining officially disseminated FAA NOTAMs prior to flight. [...]

A great time was had by all who attended this year’s barbecue at the Hiller on Sun. Oct. 23, 2011. Over 120 meals were served. The food was fantastic and included ribeye steak, salmon, chicken, shrimp, baked beans, potato and green salads, cold drinks and dessert. Men Behaving Loudly provided music for the event. If [...]

Little-known airport eatery best place for breakfast in Half Moon Bay By Julia Scott Bay Area New Group Locals know that the best breakfast on the coast is in an airplane terminal — no tickets required. For decades, the 3-Zero Cafe has been the best-kept secret in Half Moon Bay. Most drivers pass the drab-looking [...]