Moving to CA

Nadeem,

The major GA airport serving San Jose/Milpitas is Reid Hillview (KRHV). You
can checkout it's home page at

http://www.reidhillviewairport.com/

I learned to fly at Tradewinds Aviation and then rented from them for about
5 months until I bought my own plane. There have a fairly good fleet of
aircraft from 172's up to twins. The maintenance is excellent, the
scheduling is online and works well. The rental rates are a little higher
than some other FBO's at the airport.

I have heard great things about Squadron 2, my CFII mostly flys out of that
club. I think they have one of the larger fleets with a pretty varied
selection of planes.

If tail-draggers are your thing, then Amelia Reid is the only place to
consider. Excellent reputation.

I believe there is still some GA activity at San Jose International (KSJC),
but it has been reduced a lot over the last few years as the airport has
grown in a pretty busy Class C. Hayward Airport (KHWD) is north of Milpitas,
I've never even landed there. Palo Alto (PAO) is across the bay. Nice place
to visit, but I've only ever done T&Gs there.

-Brenor

"Ishrat Zahid" wrote in message
...
I'm relocating to CA from MA in next few weeks and leaving my old flying
club here at LWM.
Wondering if I can get some good recommendation for flying clubs in the
bay area?
I'll be in Milpitas/San Jose area...
Thanks

/Nadeem

Brenor Brophy wrote:

Nadeem,

The major GA airport serving San Jose/Milpitas is Reid Hillview (KRHV). You
can checkout it's home page at

http://www.reidhillviewairport.com/

I learned to fly at Tradewinds Aviation and then rented from them for about
5 months until I bought my own plane. There have a fairly good fleet of
aircraft from 172's up to twins. The maintenance is excellent, the
scheduling is online and works well. The rental rates are a little higher
than some other FBO's at the airport.

Reid-Hillview is an endangered airport and may not exist in the future when FAA
grant obligations are satisfied. There are numerous entities that would prefer
to redevelop this airport into other uses.

See http://www.reidhillview.com for a site whose author shares this view.