What do you keep in your flight bag(s)

[Anthony]

Flight bag or no, I seem to carry quite a bit of that around.

Yeah and somehow I get a lot of little German Shorthaired Pointer hairs in my plane and he's never been in it!

 

[flyingcheesehead]

One forty-five caliber automatic
Two boxes of ammunition
Four days' concentrated emergency rations
One drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills
One miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible
One hundred dollars in rubles
One hundred dollars in gold
Nine packs of chewing gum
One issue of prophylactics
Three lipsticks
Three pair of nylon stockings

You forgot the Gaston's brochure.

 

[Anthony]

You forgot the Gaston's brochure.

Oh Kent you SOB. I had just forgotten about Gastons.

 

[Dave Krall CFII]

My bag is usually full of:

Current sectionals
Current AFD
Many many many Expired Sectionals
about 6 expired AFDs
Dog biscuits, mostly crushed
Plotter and E6B
Fuel Tester
edit: I forgot I carry flashlights
I need to add some useful stuff. I just don't know what.

I got in the habit of writing NOT FOR NAV on any expired chart/AFD type stuff in my first flight school where it was common practice -don't know if it's really neccessary though.

 

[Dave Krall CFII]

There's more, but from memory without digging into the bag:

Fuel pipettes & tester
Headsets, 2 to 4
Charts/AFDs both VFR & IFR
Folding lap desk with retaining strap
Foggles
Flashlights & various spare batteries
Waterproof flares
Lighters
2 inflateable life jackets
Insect repellant
Water & food
Hand held NAVCOM with adapters
PTT switch and headset terminal box
GPS
Cell phone
Small waterproof tarp
Knife
Small vise grips
Lighters
Firearm/s
Fire extinguisher
A couple old flying magazines

Plus often throw into back seat or cargo bay; full goretex shells, warm clothes, sleeping bag/s, inflateable foam mattress/s, and tent appropriate to terrain under the route of flight and the season.

 

[Bill]

• Checklists (3 planes)
• Keys (3 planes + the old Plymouth)
• 2 pens, 2 pencils, fine line sharpie
• 4 flashlights (2 red, one red/white, one white)
• Sunglasses
• Current AF/D for area of flight
• Notebook
• E6B
• Plotter
• IFR flight file loaded w/most likely to be used plates
• Mechanical stopwatch
• Airport badge and prox card
• Spare batteries (AA and AAA)
• Reading glasses and leash
• Pocket survival kit
• Sturdy folding survival knife
• Power bars (pick the most hideous flavor so you're not tempted to eat unless you NEED them)
• Kneeboard
• Jeppshades
• Handheld GPS + POH and yoke mounts/power cord
• Handheld navcom + POH and headset adapter
• Headset
• Fuel tester
• Bound govt plates for area of flight
• Manilla folder cut to fit around glareshield in the front left portion of the windshield. Makes a great cheater blocker for flying practice simulated and approaches.
• In seperate bag, current Aircharts IFR and VFR atlas.

 

[AirBaker]

To keep the list short:
-Charts (Sectionals, Terminals, Lo-enroute, approach plates)
-Batteries
-Mini-Mag light with LED bulb
-Batteries
-GPS
-Handheld Com
-Glo-sticks for night flight if batteries are dead.
-Lint
-Crumbs from granola bars


Actually the flight bag isn't used except on those 'serious' flights. IFR/Long X-countries/etc

 

[Henning]

Ok so I was wondering what kind of stuff do you keep in your flight bag(s)?

Right now I have my headset, logbook, sectional, logbook, medical/student certificate (in my logbook holder of course) and gum.

Charts, IAPs(Not necessarily in date,not necessarily by a decade), Headset, various food bars, Flashlights, several bright and dim glow sticks in red or orange, a Gerber multi tool, a Snap On 1/4" drive set with shallow and deeps, A long shank ratcheting screw driver with interchangeable tips, a variety of wrenches, Long Handle 3/8 drive with plug socket and lead wrench, vise grips, a roll of duct tape, marline twine, spool of safety wire and pliers. E6B, fuel sampler, there's various pills down there, probably things like Sudafed, Vitamins and Anti-Psychotics. Three old company IDs, some Bandaids, couple pads of note paper, several 3.5 floppies that I am utterly clueless about and have no way to read, a spare set of plugs to put on headsets,some condoms, some old advertising flyers from 15 years ago, OOooooo my old phone and address book, coool... Lots of dust & sand, and oh yeah, the remnants from when that bag of granola broke in there 10 years ago. A small solar calculator, a 6' folding rule, 2 soap markers, various ppencils and pens.

 

[ScottM]

I'm really curious as to why you have lipstick and nylons in your flight bag, or maybe not.

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