flight bags

I have reached the point were I want to upgrade from my initial student
flight bag. It is one of the Jeppeson ones you get free with the private
pilot material purchase. It basically has a few outside pockets and a big
interior chamber with no dividers.

Anyone have any good or bad recommendations?

I basically like to carry 8 or so maps, 2 sets of narco approach plate sets,
2 AFDs, a handheld radio, log book, and small kneeboard. I also want a
collection of pens, flashlights, and odds and ends. I also like to have a 8
1/2 by 11 folder for holding papers ( flight plans, notes, etc). I am sure
there are some other things in my bag that I am forgetting now. It would be
nice to carry at least one headset also.

I would like something that had some interior dividers so I could find stuff
faster in flight.

Thanks in advance.

In article ,
"soxinbox" wrote:

I have reached the point were I want to upgrade from my initial student
flight bag. [snip]

get a divider or two for your bag (Sporty's has some)

carry less stuff... :-)

--
Bob Noel
Looking for a sig the
lawyers will hate

Oddly enough -- I went out and bought "a flight bag" back in the
days when I was a neophyte...I now use it as luggage when I travel
on short trips. And I use my smaller Eagle Creek bag as my flight bag.
It holds

handheld radio
handheld gps
3 pairs of prescription glasses
$5.00 in quarters (little coin purse)
nail file (it's a gender thing...)
emergency whistle, bandaids, chapstick, etc
all the AF/Ds and maps I need

Headset? I've got a beachbag in which I put the 4 headsets if I
need to take them out of the cherokee overnight. Or if it's just
me, I can still put the one headset into the Eagle Creek bag.

It's an older style with pockets on the side (perfect for water
bottle, spare keys, etc), couple of length-wise pockets for
stuff, and an oval zip-open on the top of the bag so it's easy to
get into.

You can find similar at Target, Kmart, etc. Take a sectional with
you to make sure it'll fit in the bag.

In a previous article, (Blanche Cohen) said:
Headset? I've got a beachbag in which I put the 4 headsets if I
need to take them out of the cherokee overnight. Or if it's just

That's a huge advantage you airplane owners have over us poor suckers who
share our planes. I can't leave my headsets in the plane, I can't even
guarantee that there will be adequate pens and a usable checklist. So I
have to carry my entire "office" with me.

I just got a Sporty's leather flight bag. My wife ordered it for me in
December as a Christmas present, and it came on March 31st, just in time
for a late birthday present.

--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
It's a house of cards, supported not on the backs of turtles but on bull****.
Making the bull**** gooier makes the house of cards less likely to collapse,
but is not necessarily an improvement. -- Alan J Rosenthal

That's a huge advantage you airplane owners have over us poor suckers who
share our planes. I can't leave my headsets in the plane, I can't even
guarantee that there will be adequate pens and a usable checklist. So I
have to carry my entire "office" with me.

That *is* one of the nicest things about owning a plane, I must admit.
Everything, right down to the seat position, is the same as when you
left it. (Well, unless Mary flew last... :-)

I've got a really nice flight bag from Sporty's that's been sitting in
a closet since '98.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Blanche Cohen" wrote in message
...
Oddly enough -- I went out and bought "a flight bag" back in the
days when I was a neophyte...I now use it as luggage when I travel
on short trips. And I use my smaller Eagle Creek bag as my flight bag.
It holds

handheld radio
handheld gps
3 pairs of prescription glasses
$5.00 in quarters (little coin purse)
nail file (it's a gender thing...)
emergency whistle, bandaids, chapstick, etc

After we bought our airplane and brought it home, my wife was digging around
under the passenger seats and found the following items:

* Finger nail clipper
* two shirt buttons
* small package of band-aids
* one shoe lace
* one box of profitlactiks...profalactacs...um...a box of rubbers.

She remarked that someone must have expected to get lucky. I said that
evidently he didn't because the box was till intact.

In a previous article, "Matt Barrow" said:
After we bought our airplane and brought it home, my wife was digging around
under the passenger seats and found the following items:

* Finger nail clipper
* two shirt buttons
* small package of band-aids
* one shoe lace
* one box of profitlactiks...profalactacs...um...a box of rubbers.

She remarked that someone must have expected to get lucky. I said that
evidently he didn't because the box was till intact.

You didn't say "A fella could have a pretty good weekend in Dallas/Vegas
with all that stuff"?


--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
Heaven has all the lusers, a generous supply of larts -
and no PHBs anywhere in sight.
-- The BOFH Heaven, according to Suresh

"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message
...
In a previous article, "Matt Barrow" said:
After we bought our airplane and brought it home, my wife was digging
around
under the passenger seats and found the following items:

* Finger nail clipper
* two shirt buttons
* small package of band-aids
* one shoe lace
* one box of profitlactiks...profalactacs...um...a box of rubbers.

She remarked that someone must have expected to get lucky. I said that
evidently he didn't because the box was still intact.

You didn't say "A fella could have a pretty good weekend in Dallas/Vegas
with all that stuff"?


If there were also nylons, 200 dollars in gold, Hershey bars, etc., yeah, I
probably should have.

--
Matt
---------------------
Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO

I'll second the advice to "carry less stuff."

I got a backpack bag a long time ago from REI which is almost ideal.
It's got several compartments of different sizes.

On Thu, 04 May 2006 21:20:46 -0700, Bob Fry
wrote:

I'll second the advice to "carry less stuff."

I got a backpack bag a long time ago from REI which is almost ideal.
It's got several compartments of different sizes.

I'd go 100% with carry less.

I bought a cheap lightweight bag with lots of pockets and it worked
really well but I got fed up with carrying all the weight, especially
on one arm/shoulder. I now have a smaller bag and removed everything I
could do without. In addition I have a separate headset bag which also
has my timer, spare glasses and fuel dip stick.

I'd never go for leather it just adds extra weight for carrying and
extra load in the aircraft.

David