Where to fly from san francisco
How to fly the San Francisco Bay Tour
the San Francisco Bay tour is a great
flight for sightseeing and having lunch
at Half Moon Bay and just seeing that
area in general it's really not as
intimidating as one might think if you
request the bade tour from NorCal
approach they're more than willing to
more than happy to accommodate and more
than happy to put you on flight
following as well it helps them not
greately simply put the bade tour is
coming in either from the north or south
traversing underneath the Class B
airspace and then leaving the opposite
direction so I have a light here I'm
coming in from the north
and I'm going to go south to north on
this flight with a stop at Half Moon Bay
for lunch the great restaurant here it's
on the field you can walk to impart
right in front of it
it's well worth it so let's do a little
review on our airspace requirements as
you remember from your Private Pilot
ground school days this area
30 nautical miles around San Francisco
is called the mode sea veil you have to
have a transponder with mode C
capabilities in order to come in 30
miles of the airport
that is true for all altitudes and that
if you don't have that transponder with
mode C can't come in this area however
the airspace is much simpler
member airspace rolls these two rings
here are part of the Class B airspace
bigger
between these two rings we have to be
under 8,000 feet or over 10,000 feet if
we're between 8 and 10,000 feet were in
Class B airspace in order to be there we
have to have explicit permission from
ATC
so stay below 8,000 feet you have no
problem at all
my next checkpoint down here is San Jose
International Airport
this is Class C airspace or to come into
class C
oh I'm sorry Class C is from the surface
to 4,000 feet so as long as I'm above
4,000 feet below 8,000 I don't have to
talk to anybody at all once I hit San
Jose Airport I'm gonna make a lazy
right-hand turn
just to keep me away from all this other
traffic here and you'd come out as far
as you want but I have another ring that
I've just gone through this ring is over
here 6,000 feet so drop down to below
6,000 feet no worries whatsoever you can
see this Class C right here kind of
still have to be above 4,000 feet
be there so between four and six
thousand feet right here 4k
once I you know just about even with
moffett field's here is the next ring
and the final one this one is four
thousand feet so as soon as I get to
this ring or before I need to be below
4,000 feet drop down below that
all the way to Oakland alright so we're
at Half Moon Bay we're going to leave
let's take a look at departure
again really easy
you'll see Halfmoon Bay's right here
what I want to point out is this little
strip of airspace right
I know my route line blurs it but
here's your Class B
is the ring
1,500 feet 10,500 feet only applies to
this little section not out here out
here 2,100 feet you stay below 2,100 no
problem at all
best way to do that and make sure that
your outside of this area here is
in here
punch in Sutra su TR o that is a GPS
Waypoint it will keep you outside of the
airspace here another good way is once
you leave Half Moon Bay keep this
highway on your right-hand side I want
to tell you one stuff here but we keep
that highway on your right-hand side
that director Sutro and you don't have
anything to worry about
stay below 2100 and you're not in Class
B airspace okay finally
we get to Sutro
here you're gonna be able to see the
Golden Gate Bridge where you're not
so just point your aircraft towards
Golden Gate Bridge and head straight
there your altitude or Class B airspace
is only going to climb from here on out
so stay below 3000 feet
here have any work and then as you
proceed north eastbound
it's only getting taller so 4,000 feet
6,000 feet next thing you know you're
completely out from the 30 nautical
miles
what are you going to see obviously the
goal in the gate bridge you're passing
right at the top of that that's pretty
cool
here's Alcatraz that's pretty neat
you've got Angel Island here you can go
right between the two
Stadium here right along the stadium
of--they these are all the piers all the
peers of course you're gonna see San
Francisco you'll see Oakland
International town of Oakland and all
that so hopefully this helps if you have
any questions leave a comment or a
question below and I'll be glad to help
you out
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