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Awesome replies here; nice work. I did the VFR G1000 checkout for 172s and 182s, and it only took one or two flights with my very thorough instructor at my old extremely thorough flying club (WVFC). Reading Max Trescott's book was a huge help since it goes over the entire system in detail...

Hi, btw! Do you not carry paper charts as a backup? Is Foreflight considered reliable enough to be the only chart source at this point? I think it's well worth the money, and it proved it's worth to me when I got into a rental that was missing the datacard from it's Garmin 530.

There was some fun stuff in our discussion (Monterey, CA) a month or so ago...... :goofy:

West Valley has a bunch of Archers and Warriors. Advantage has an older archer (1978) with a Garmin 430 in it, and a very new one with the Avidyne glass panel. There's also a new club that mainly has Cessnas called "Advanced Flyers". Founded by an ex-West Valley owner who has 5 or 6 172SPs...

Fair play - I might have overstated a bit. There has been a longstanding rift between the former GM and Director of Maintenence and some of the CFIs. About 18 months ago this culminated in a few people getting elected to the board and a bunch of changes being made, including a formal grievance...

In terms of ground transportation in the area, there is CalTrain, which goes north south up and down the peninsula, from San Francisco to San Jose. SQL and PAO would both be bikeable from the CalTrain, and you can connect to BART if you wanted to get to Oakland or elsewhere. There's also the...

West Valley is going through some serious turmoil right now. You can probably read about it on their forum at www.wvfc.org. I've just left, and I know others have too. This may not be an issue if you're just in the area for a short time. Advantage Aviation is another club on the field at...