We present general properties for almost-flat modules and we prove that a self-small right module is almost flat as a left module over its endomorphism ring if and only if the class of $g$-static modules is closed under the kernels.
Glaz and Wickless introduced the class $G$ of mixed abelian groups $A$ which have finite torsion-free rank and satisfy the following three properties: i) $A_p$ is finite for all primes $p$, ii) $A$ is isomorphic to a pure subgroup of $\Pi _p A_p$, and iii) $\mathop {\mathrm Hom}\nolimits (A,tA)$ is torsion. A ring $R$ is a left Kasch ring if every proper right ideal of $R$ has a non-zero left annihilator. We characterize the elements $A$ of $G$ such that $E(A)/tE(A)$ is a left Kasch ring, and discuss related results.