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Why I Love Stockton for Night Flight Training
a step-by-step guide to my favorite training route

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An FAA sectional shown in standard colors and inverted colors with a route to Stockton plotted.

Stockton Metro Airport (KSCK) is my favorite training destination for a night cross-country because it regularly produces valuable situations I’d like a student to encounter.

I like it so much that even if a student trains at Palo Alto Airport (only 49 nm from Stockton),1 I will have them start with a relocation flight to San Carlos, then do their cross-country from San Carlos to Stockton and back to Palo Alto.

Interested to see what we’ll encounter? Join me on a typical night flight to Stockton!

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Why I Love Stockton for Night Flight Training
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6 HITS: Beautiful Practice Approaches of Minnesota and Wisconsin
handy circuit of practice approaches for a trip around Minnesota and Wisconsin

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Practice Approach into Sky Harbor

My colleague1 Edward Abraham and I departed from California to Minnesota in N81034 to train for our CFI-I ratings.2 We laid out a training program to test our CFI-I syllabus, including a day of practice instrument approaches.

These practice approaches were chosen for challenging variety, interesting destinations, and efficiency when stringing several together.

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6 HITS: Beautiful Practice Approaches of Minnesota and Wisconsin
handy circuit of practice approaches for a trip around Minnesota and WisconsinRead More »