It used to be that the perfect flight bag had to accommodate several thick binders of paper charts, heavy headsets, a bulky portable GPS, oversized flashlights and anything else you could squeeze into it. It’s different now.
These days, we strut to the airfield armed with a tablet computer loaded with electronic charts, plus a handful of other small gadgets that might get lost in the bottom of a large flight bag. The solution? Downsize the bag, and there are plenty of aviation-specific solutions for doing so.