flight bags

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