Flying to San Diego

San Onofre Power Plant

La Jolla

 

Qualcomm Stadium

 

Mark, Tony, and Wolf

 

Casa Machado restaurant on top of the terminal building

 

LCAC Landing craft at Camp Pendleton

 

Queen Mary, Long Beach

We flew down to San Diego, and saw Tony while we were down there.  We flew down the shoreline, then over the Miramar Class B to Mt. Soledad, before descending for a left downwind entry to runway 28 Left. 
There is a nice shot of Qualcomm Stadium just as we turned left base.  There is a Mexican restaurant on the field that has a nice 2nd story view of the airport.  We departed straight out, and stayed under the Miramar Class B to follow the shoreline back up north. We stayed on the shoreline back home, went through the Santa Ana Class C, over Long Beach harbor, then through the LAX "mini route" before returning to KWHP.  MORE PICS HERE...

Flying to Paso Robles

 Santa Ynez Airport

near Santa Maria

Skunkworks

Paso Robles Jet Center

We ate at Mathew's which has now closed.  There was about a 20 knott wind going right down the runway today.  Some guy in a Schweizer 300 was doing hover practice right next to the approach to Runway 19!  I'm could have waved to him on my right as I passed him on final approach, at least he was on the radio.  The marine layer actually crept in and got worse as the day went on, the opposite of what usually happens.
We flew over the layer on the way home and it cleared up once we got to Semi Valley.  Skunkworks made this video.

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Flying to French Valley, (F70) Temecula/Murrietta

Lake Elsinore

Skunkworks

The socal marine layer wouldn't let up along the coast, so we decided to stay inland and checkout French Valley, it was a little bumby and visibility wasn't the best due to the haze.
French valley has a long runway and is non-towered, it is among the many tract homes and wineries in the area. We took the 15 freeway south and passed Lake Elinore. It was about here that SoCal dropped our flight following and traffic could be heard on the Elsinore advisory freq of 122.9. Lake Skinner was out the right window as we entered left downwind for runway 18. The restaurant was nice, just a few feet from the free transient parking and a wonderful view of the runway from either inside, or the patio.

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