Many pilots don’t realize this but February is “Clean out Your Flight Bag Month”. This is the time of year that pilots, both professional and amateur, get those three month old USA Today’s out of the bag. They find the remnants of cheddar snack crackers, the odd pencil nub and dust bunnies from last year’s flying and toss them into the trash.
Embarrassing stuff like inappropriate magazines, notes from co-workers and receipts from bars can be disposed of.
Toys, such as in-flight yo-yos, miniature chess sets, Playstation II’s ® or decks of cards can be upgraded, replaced or supplied with new batteries.
If you find a dozen or so Jepp revision envelopes, now might be the time to do some of them (or at least write the dates on your revision page). Oxygen masks, headsets and other personal items could probably be disinfected or replaced.
Put in a fresh pack of gum, some new magazines and you are done!
Now, if you sometime in the far away future can once again afford to fly anything you’ll be one step up on the other pilots. You’ll have a clean and ready to go flight bag by your side.
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Whats in this stupid bag, colored marker pencils, expired Washington and New York sectionals. Payday candybar. Critical task wipes, (for windshield) Highlighters, a warped plotter.
The hated E6B. Keys to something? Change,
a comb with broken teeth, courtesy of my Scottie. A itsy bitsy calculator.
Cool, found my pink lipstick!
--Joanne
Whats in this stupid bag, colored marker pencils, expired Washington and New York sectionals. Payday candybar. Critical task wipes, (for windshield) Highlighters, a warped plotter.
The hated E6B. Keys to something? Change,
a comb with broken teeth, courtesy of my Scottie. A itsy bitsy calculator.
Cool, found my pink lipstick!
--Joanne
Maybe if I flew IFR I'd need a flight bag, don't know, don't fly IFR. Way back in the age of Narco VHT 3 and Mark II, I few instruments, then after my check ride, made the decision to never do that again until I had an auto pilot. Never could afford one, so never flew instruments again. That's over 40 years ago, probably not current anyway.
--Snoopy
Yeah -- you have to have six instrument approaches in the past 39 years to stay ifr current so you are just barely out of currency. Is a little john what I think it is?
--Snoopy
--DUCK
