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The MAV/MOS site looks useful, but it only makes it out 4 days. Still better than the <48 hours stuff I generally see.

He has weather prediction charts/etc for beyond 48 hours? Looks more like an education site to me...

I looked around duats and didn't find anything beyond a couple days.

I was wondering if anyone knows of good resources for doing VFR flight planning beyond the next few days. I plan to fly from KPAO to 1O2 (Lampson Field) and back this weekend, and noticed some predictions of possible clouds and rain in the ordinary weather reports. But of course, they don't...

I'm also baffled by the "no way in hell" ideas from folks. I have some friends that are interested in aviation and are specifically interested in seeing what stalls and steep turns are like. They're thinking about going for their licenses at some point, and I can't think of any reason not to...

Cloud Ahoy doesn't provide any in-flight information, AFAIK. It just records your flight so that you can play it back and review it later. Useful for the sorts of questions that OP has. I like to use it to review how square and consistent my pattern is.

This is *exactly* the kind of information I was looking for. Thank you so much. :) We went down there on Sunday just looking for sight seeing, and I wanted to be sure that we did everything right. Sounds like I was more than safe: I was more careful than I needed to be, and that, frankly, is...

Got any suggestions?

If we want to land at an airport above 3500 MSL, we need to get a mountain flying checkout. No requirements on *where* you can fly. Just where you can land.

Thanks for the offer! I think I'm good right now. I just wanted to check in to see if there's anything I'm missing about these shorter mountains, or if they are as safe as they appear to be to me. :)

In training, I was always flying in places where I was only near mountains, but the terrain beneath me was very flat, such as through Sunol, or near livermore, or over the mountains to half moon bay. I'd never flown over areas such as Big Sur, or the mountains directly to the east of San Jose...

Eh, here's the thing. There are known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns. I know that there are some things about mountain flying that I don't know very well, but I really don't know how much I *don't* know. So I'm carefully avoiding anything resembling mountains until I assemble...

I plan on taking some mountain flying training and doing a bunch of reading on the subject in the next couple months, but I haven't had the chance to do so yet and want to make sure that my decision making process is safe until I take the time to do that study and training.

What about maintaining emergency landing places? I stayed away from the mountains because I'm not really sure if/how I would do an emergency landing when directly above them. Instead, I figured I'd stay well to the side where I could easily see flat land I could glide to. (I'm trying to be...

Just got my pilot's license a few weeks ago, and have been enjoying flying around with it. One thing I want to do soon is get training for how to deal with flying near and around and into mountainous regions. I understand there's some specific and special techniques related to it, and my...

OMG, I Love Takeoff Aviation Weather! It's so helpful! Thanks for making it! :)

I wonder this so often myself. Based on what I've learned so far, here's how I'm approaching thinking about this question. 1) Are you flying a lot now, and do you think you'll be flying a lot in the future? 2) How important is control over maintenance and scheduling to you? 3) How much are...

I'm curious. Why is this done?

This looks like fun: http://www.sancarlosflight.com/fog-events/august-3-sat-air-rally-and-picnic

The 72Mhz stuff is fading, and it's not very expensive to upgrade to the 2.4 ghz stuff. It's also just much more reliable, accurate, etc.